[open-bibliography] BibSoup/BibServer collaboration model?

Tue Feb 7 20:48:03 UTC 2012

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Naomi Lillie <naomi.lillie at okfn.org> wrote:

> Following on from the below, please see here for a forum for comparisons:
> http://wiki.okfn.org/Projects/jiscopenbib2/managementtools

Thanks for putting that together Naomi.  After I sent my original
query I discovered that Wikipedia has a comparison of 28 different
existing solutions in the space I was thinking of:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_reference_management_software
(Just noticed that Jim pointed out the same thing while this was
sitting half composed)

Mark's statement that BibServer is focused on web publishing and
faceted search of bibliographies clarified things for me a lot.  As I
understand it now, there's really no overlap at all with Zotera or
Mendeley or other bib management solutions.  BibServer fits at the
very last stage in the life cycle when it's time to publish (on the
web rather than view LaTex or Word).  Instead comparisons would be to
things like Drupal Scholar http://drupal.org/project/biblio or other
web publishing platforms.

As an aside, I'm not sure if proselytizing BibJson or tracking it's
adoption is a goal, but that same Wikipedia page includes listings of
format support for BibTeX, RIS, etc by the various software packages.
That could probably be extended pretty easily to track BibJson.

Tom