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

[Thad Guidry]

Sounds good everyone.

As Tom mentioned, some things are not so cut and dry with Freebase uploading
(we strive for 99% accuracy still), but perhaps as you mentioned BibSoup,
your server might be able to run a reconcile service later on.

Stefano Mazzocchi (one of the Refine backend developers) lives in Los
Angeles.
David Huynh (primarily frontend, and all around) does live and work in the
SF Bay area.
Tom Morris (on this list) lives in Boston area.
I live in Dallas - and do not code much anymore, but talk a lot and work my
own agendas ;)

My initial thoughts were that your BibTex -> JSON Python parser could be our
ticket and the reason I reached out to all on this list.
The Python code looked decent, but I do not know the effort to bring that
over to Java, nor maintain it.

Tom, would you be kind enough to review their github
https://github.com/okfn/bibserver/tree/master/bibserver/parsers and let
everyone know the effort there ?  My thoughts are that if we can simply turn
BibTex over to JSON, then folks can just use the existing JSON parser within
Refine.  But then my right brain side is telling me that most folks would
rather just see a BibTex file being loaded into Refine and showing the row
and column (spreadsheet) preview mode, watching the magic happen
automatically, rather than records mode, like we do with JSON and XML and
manually selecting each BibTex section.  (  Btw Tom, I might put a bounty on
this again, not for sure however, since I do not directly need it, just
helping scientist friends ;) and it looks like OKFN would like to see it
happen as well ! )

-- 
-Thad
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/thad_guidry
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