[open-bibliography] BibSoup/BibServer collaboration model?

Thu Feb 2 19:27:51 UTC 2012

Doh !  (Homer Simpson style)  this is the __OPEN__ Bibliographic Data list
after all.  So Mendeley has a different idea of OPENness than what this
working group is driving for.  They have an OPEN API that does not require
authentication, only a consumer key after registration.  They also do not
provide an OPEN dump of all the bib data.

If the main complaint their license ? http://dev.mendeley.com/docs/license All
data from the Mendeley API is made available under a Creative Commons
Attribution 3.0 Unported License for commercial and non-commercial
derivations.
If that is the main complaint... then would changing Mendeley's license on
the data to CC0 make it approved according to your principles ?
http://openbiblio.net/principles/

On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Jim Pitman <pitman at stat.berkeley.edu> wrote:

> 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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-- 
-Thad
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