[open-bibliography] getting a personal bib library out

Wed Jan 18 23:52:05 UTC 2012

On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 11:35 PM, Jim Pitman <pitman at stat.berkeley.edu>wrote:

> Mark,
> I tried following your instructions below, but I could not make them work.
> To reiterate my point, after uploading a dataset from
>
> https://raw.github.com/langner/library/master/library.small.bib
>
> to bibsoup, by whatever means, with whatever name, I should be able to
> retrieve this dataset from a url
> as simple as
>
>
> http://bibsoup.net?source=https://raw.github.com/langner/library/master/library.small.bib
>
> Whatever your internal ids, I believe this is as simple as tagging  the
> dataset with its source
> url, and retrieving from the database by the value of the source_url tag.
>  Isnt that so? I think
> this is implicit in your instructions.
>

 "There are only two hard problems in Computer Science:
   cache invalidation and naming things."

   -- Phil Karlton

This is a naming problem!

It's soluble by a mixture of good simple practice and cooperative humans.
It's not trivial. As I said I guess we shall have to have a BibserverMint
for IDs. That almost certainly has to be centrally run.

I don't know the solution. There will be one. I trust Mark's knowledge and
judgment on this

-- 
Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
+44-1223-763069
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