[open-bibliography] Crowdsourcing bibliographic data

Tue Aug 17 14:18:41 UTC 2010

Will: lets resurrect this discussion on:

http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/bibliographica-users

;-)

Jonathan

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 4:16 PM, William Waites <william.waites at okfn.org> wrote:
>  On 10-08-17 14:31, Jonathan Gray wrote:
>>   * To make something that is used you can't just give people a form
>> and expect them to add a thousand articles. There must be some
>> incentive for users in order to make this really scale. E.g. being
>> able to use it to generate nice indexes for courses they teach/attend,
>> books they write, having a community to help ensure the information is
>> up to date, all open so can be plugged into other
>> tools/services/resources, and so on.
>
> This is where I was going with the natural language
> robot bit. If students or researchers could jot down
> notes not so differently than they already do but with
> a minimum of prescriptiveness about the shape of
> their sentences, then you could just upload the text
> file and out pops an annotated reading list all nicely
> indexed and presented.
>
> Cheers,
> -w
>
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