[okfn-discuss] Tools for collaboratively developing online bibliographic indexes

Mon Nov 30 23:40:47 UTC 2009

Thanks for the tips Claudia!

Bibsonomy looks excellent - does it have good export functionality?
Also is it possible to collaboratively edit bibliographies?

Jonathan

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 9:40 PM, Claudia Mueller-Birn <clmb at cs.cmu.edu> wrote:
> Hi Jonathan,
>
> Do you know Bibsonomy (http://www.bibsonomy.org/)? There are templates available such as this http://www.bibsonomy.org/publ/layout/tablerefsabsbibsort/user/clmueller/myown?items=1000. The columns are sortable.
>
> Another solution could be smile/json, for example such as here http://groups.csail.mit.edu/haystack/publications.html
>
> :::Claudia
>
> On Nov 30, 2009, at 4:20 PM, Jonathan Gray wrote:
>
>> I currently have several ideas for projects for which I want to create
>> large, collaboratively maintained online bibliographies (or
>> bibliographic indexes/databases)...
>>
>> I wonder if anyone has any ideas for any (open source) tools which
>> might be good for this? Or where I could ask?
>>
>> A few notes on the kind of thing I am looking for:
>>  * There are quite a few static HTML bibliographies out there, but
>> I'd like to be able to do basic queries on my bibliographies, rather
>> than just viewing them as a list. E.g. organise by country of author,
>> by language of work, order works chronologically, order according to
>> whether 'primary' or 'secondary' material (this will probably be a
>> non-standard field!), and so on.
>>  * Not limited to books, but to articles, primary sources
>> (manuscripts), audiovisual material - as well as pointing to online
>> sources (especially public domain texts).
>>  * Ability to annotate bibliography (comments on works)...
>>  * Preferably using some kind of standard format for bibliographic
>> metadata - and (in an ideal world) flexibility to output records in
>> different formats (MLA, Harvard...)
>>  * Preferably I'd like to have some control over where these are
>> hosted (i.e. not using a proprietary/third party service).
>>  * In the short term this would be in English, and would contain
>> works from multiple languages, but over time support for being able to
>> translate material into multiple languages would be valuable.
>>  * Also (again in an ideal world!) I'd like to be able to pull out
>> dates associated with works and authors - which could be displayed on
>> a timeline (by country, say).
>>
>> Any/all tips would be greatly appreciated!
>>
>> --
>> Jonathan Gray
>>
>> Community Coordinator
>> The Open Knowledge Foundation
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Jonathan Gray

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