[open-bibliography] getting a personal bib library out

Wed Jan 18 22:54:52 UTC 2012

On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 8:18 PM, Jim Pitman <pitman at stat.berkeley.edu>wrote:

> Great, thanks for pointer!
> Then here is the dataset on my Berkeley BibServer
>
>
> http://bibserver.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/bibs7?https://raw.github.com/langner/library/master/library.small.bib
>
> and here it is on the BibSoup BibServer
>
> http://bibsoup.net/pitman/karol_m_langer_s_bibliography
>

Brilliant everyone! we have a technology which seems to be deployable in
very short time.

It is a deficiency of the present BibSoup BibServer compared to the legacy
> BibServer that there
> is no obvious way to query BibSoup to see if it already has a copy of
> https://raw.github.com/langner/library/master/library.small.bib
> and if not to ingest one.
> e.g. searching BibSoup for the source url returns nothing.
> Mark, can you see how to remedy this?
> It may be as simple as putting the source url in the right search field, I
> just dont see how.
>

I suspect this is solved by convention-over-configuration. We can recommend
that Bibsoupers use URLs and URIs in specified ways and if they do I
suspect this is soluble. It's the clash between addresses and names. We
probably need a Bibsoup URI Mint

> It is a serious problem for any user who wishes to programmatically upload
> many bibliographies to
> BibSoup that there is no obvious way to retrieve them after programmatic
> upload without user
> retaining a dictionary to e.g. map
> https://raw.github.com/langner/library/master/library.small.bib to
> karol_m_langer_s_bibliography
>
> Do you mean find the Bibservers or retrieve their content? I fully agree
that a Bibserver needs something like .dump()

> many thanks
>
>
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Peter Murray-Rust
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Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
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