[open-bibliography] Bibliography to X tool

[Christopher Gutteridge]

Interesting idea from a drunken conversation last night; Given a 
bibliography containing (maybe) metadata, and (maybe) URIs/URLs  you 
could build a tool to do a best effort conversion to Endnote, BibTex or 
"bibo/dc" etc. Using a whole bunch of strategies, from basic looking at 
the metadata, to, for example  looking up the URL 
<http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/21605/>, seeing it's got
<link rel="alternate" 
href="http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cgi/export/eprint/21605/EndNote/ecs-eprint-21605.enw" 
type="text/plain; charset=utf-8" title="EndNote" />
and using that to get the endnote version. Rather than just  generic 
rules; you could add rules for major websites and tools.

I've got no time to do this, but it sounds like a useful web service and 
a really fun open ended project.

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