[open-bibliography] Google Refine contributor wanting to help this community

Sat Oct 15 17:52:14 UTC 2011

Hi Thad,

Thanks a,lot for getting in touch. We have been considering options
for the editing part, and we already use refine on some other
projects, so it would be a great way to go!

As Jim mentioned in his reply to you, we do not have a java bibtex
parser but we do have a python one in our repo.

I have been doing some experimenting in the last couple of weeks with
schema.org, and it is also very interesting. As too is the citeproc
JSON schema. We are currently reviewing the bibjson spec, and are open
to suggestions.

Let me know if you want more technical details about our code and repo, etc.

Mark

On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 7:15 AM, Thad Guidry <thadguidry at gmail.com> wrote:
> Reading through a few posts from Jim Pitman previously and stumpled upon his
> mention of SIMILE and CITELINE.
> Well, it just so happens that 2 of the authors are now part of Google, and
> contributors to Google Refine.
> I brought up the idea to the team about getting a BibTex BIbJSON
> importer/exporter, since we already support JSON, XML, RDF, and even MARC
> already.  In fact, this current idea came from my brainstorm with one of the
> few scientists that we have on Freebase.com who is also a community expert
> like myself who wanted a better tool to use to analyze his citations, bibs,
> etc, and convert his data. ;)
> I think converting and manipulating BibTex records into JSON, specifically
> BibJSON can be done within Google Refine's architecture with just a bit of
> wiring up and a bit of help from this community.  It is entirely possible
> now in the new release, to easily preview, convert, manipulate XML / JSON
> data and output to XML / JSON however your heart desires.
> What I am missing is a BibTex parser, or better yet, a generic BibTex to
> JSON converter in Java source.  Hence this email to your community and
> offering and asking for assistance.
> One of the bonuses of this endeavor is to allow authors or publishers or
> anyone to upload their bib metadata to Freebase.com, if they want, entirely
> up to them.
> Another bonus...I also saw mention of everyone's general interest on this
> list about Schema.org... as it turns out, lol, a lot of the schema
> development was borrowed from Freebase.com, since Google had acquired them
> last year.  In fact, some of my Freebase schema work is in there.  (and yes,
> that endeavor is and will be much more than just heuristics and natural
> language techniques - there's a ton of research being done by Google
> Research NYC at the moment, so stay tuned)
> I would encourage folks to
> download http://code.google.com/p/google-refine/downloads/list and use
> Google Refine on any existing JSON file or even a flat csv file or any of
> the formats we currently support and see how it generally works and allows
> export, even a custom export option or via a template.  You'll soon discover
> that it is an extremely useful tool and could be THE tool that this
> community could leverage for their BibJSON / BibTex / structured text /
> processing and cleaning needs.  (Btw, we use jQuery as well in Google Refine
> which runs on your local desktop in your browser.)
> We're all ears - Google Refine Team,
> Disclaimer: I do not work for Google.  I have worked for a public library
> for over 7 years.  I love cheese. :)
> --
> -Thad
> http://www.freebase.com/view/en/thad_guidry
>
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