[open-bibliography] Changes on openbiblio wiki

Wed Oct 20 08:20:00 UTC 2010

On 19 Oct 2010, at 15:57, Jim Pitman wrote:
> Those interested in bibliographic data management and cleaning workflows need a list of available software tools,
> data sources and webservices. I am thinking especially about article metadata, which is very different to book metadata from
> a socio-economic perspective.
> For the tools, comments on their purpose, usability, flexibility, ...... Whether they are
> proprietary or open source, well maintained, ....
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_reference_management_software
> 
> is a great start, and we should not duplicate this. I would suggest rather scripting the data out of those tables 
> and supplementing with our own notes.
> We especially need some commentary on the suitability of some these software systems 
> e.g. JabRef, Zotero, BibSonomy, Mendeley, .....  for openbiblio purposes. T

At CARET we're looking into reference managers from a slightly different point of view - just to learn more about which are used at Cambridge and for what purposes, mostly (as part of a different JISC project - ConnectedWorks).  I think we could add some questions for our survey/interviews/etc around open bibliography; I know there are already concerns in some areas of the campus around tool sustainability just for academic use (and open source plays a role here) and so this might be fruitful.  It would be interesting to both raise awareness of openbiblio as a possibility as well as finding out whether our academics have an appetite for it. 

Best regards, 

Laura

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