[open-bibliography] Reading list schema and software (was: Re: New group for bibliographic data on CKAN)

[O.Stephens]

A couple of related RDF schemas:

Bibo (of course) http://bibliontology.com/
AIISO - this is a bit specialist, but describes the structure of academic institutions - which is again developed at Talis and used by Aspire, and useful if you want to relate 'reading lists' to particular courses/departments etc. http://vocab.org/aiiso/schema

Other Open Source s/w for creating 'reading lists' (both in an academic context):
List8D http://blogs.kent.ac.uk/list8d/
LORLS https://lorls.lboro.ac.uk/about.html

LORLS is a bit long in the tooth, but List8D is a recent development and won prizes at both the first and second 'Developer Happiness Days' events in London (http://dev8d.org/). The most recent prize was for integrating List8D into the open source Moodle VLE.

Finally the project I'm currently working on at the Open University (TELSTAR http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/telstar/) is about using RefWorks (a proprietary web-based reference management system) to push bibliographic/reference management tools into Moodle - although we are using RefWorks, the Moodle side of the code will be Open Source (hopefully in April), and potentially could be adapted to support other Reference Management tools. 

Owen


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rufus Pollock [mailto:rufus.pollock at okfn.org] 
> Sent: 25 March 2010 14:22
> To: List for Working Group on Open Bibliographic Data
> Subject: [open-bibliography] Reading list schema and software 
> (was: Re: New group for bibliographic data on CKAN)
> 
> On 25 March 2010 12:59, O.Stephens <o.stephens at open.ac.uk> wrote:
> > I wonder if the 'resource list' ontology 
> > (http://vocab.org/resourcelist/schema) created by Nadeem Shabir and 
> > Rob Styles of Talis (http://www.talis.com/) is relevant to 
> this? It is 
> > a RDF ontology for describing collections of items and was 
> developed 
> > to support their Aspire product (http://www.talis.com/aspire/)
> >
> > "The Resource List ontology is intended for use describing 
> academic reading lists, bookmarks, bibliographies and similar 
> structured collections of references."
> 
> This does indeed look very relevant. Thanks Owen for sending 
> this over.
> 
> If anyone else has knowledge of schemas, formats or 
> (open-source) software relevant to creating "reading-lists"  
> do let us know.
> 
> Rufus
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