[open-bibliography] Crowdsourcing bibliographic data

[Thomas Krichel]

  Jonathan Gray writes

>   * 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.

  Yes, and only publishers have such incentives. In RePEc we
  have beenn more succesful than anybody else, now aggregating
  contributions from over 1000 publishers.

>   * Hence Bibliographica, which aims to be a free, open source,
> scalable service

  What is an "open-source service"?

  Cheers,

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