[open-bibliography] BibSoup/BibServer collaboration model?

Jim Pitman pitman at stat.Berkeley.EDU
Thu Feb 2 19:05:43 UTC 2012


Thad Guidry <thadguidry at gmail.com> wrote:

> Based on Tom's "Perfect World"... Medeley fulfills a large part of his wish
> list already:

Indeed, but it is not open!  
See 
http://www.isitopendata.org/enquiry/view/43bcbda2-30ef-486b-9c52-4378ede75c7d/
http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2011/09/15/open-api-or-glorious-api/

--Jim


>
> 1. Has iPhone and iPad support. A Desktop version. A Web version.
> 2. Their Web importer already supports importing citations from just about
> EVERYONE already...see here: http://www.mendeley.com/import/ as well as
> COinS and metatags.
> 3. Sharing of annotations.
> 4. Group collaboration. (the level of collaboration differs between Paid
> and Free however, I think.)
> 5. An Open Web API (just like Zotero has).
> 6. Soon to have Library Systems support for the major systems used
> http://www.mendeley.com/blog/academic-features/announcing-the-mendeley-institutional-edition-powered-by-swets/#more-43450
> 7. Also soon to have Federated searching across external databases,
> including those endorsing universities http://www.mendeley.com/endorsements/
> 7. It's FREE for up to 1GB for your own papers storage.
>
> -- 
> -Thad
> http://www.freebase.com/view/en/thad_guidry




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