[open-bibliography] 'Art Meets Astrophysics': Galaxy Zoo and Citizen Science - does this extend to Bibliography?

Sun Oct 3 01:13:49 UTC 2010

  Jim Pitman writes

>  True. But the article metadata in 3lib.org is mostly incomplete
> (e.g. missing volume and page numbers) so typically inferior to what
> is available from the sources it harvests.

  It could be added from the sources that it uses. But it does
  not need that for AuthorClaim. That's why I have not added
  it.  

> What we need to generate is higher quality metadata, at least bibtex quality,
> on a scale comparable scale to 3lib.

  But harvesting will not do that. What need are stable identifiers
  so that we can feed value added services based on identifiers.
  All other information can be gotten from Google. 

> Here we run into IP issues. Many of the data providers for  3lib are unwilling to
> release their complete metadata with a suitable license. 

  No, this is not the issue. We don't have any data covering many
  fields, that's the issue. 

  Cheers,

  Thomas Krichel                    http://openlib.org/home/krichel
                                http://authorclaim.org/profile/pkr1
                                               skype: thomaskrichel