[open-bibliography] getting a personal bib library out

Thu Jan 19 10:17:01 UTC 2012

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 2:45 AM, Thad Guidry <thadguidry at gmail.com> wrote:

> Mark,
>
> This full URL you gave:
>
> http://bibsoup.net/collections/?q=source:"
> http://bibserver.berkeley.edu/tmp/testbib.bib"&format=json&meta=false
>
> sucked into Google Refine easily.  And that should give folks plenty of
> options to get the data out of Bibserver, edit, & export the data out of
> Refine and reuse it however they want. (even templating it for re-use in a
> wiki web page!)
>

Thad this is GREAT!

As an example I am doing  250 records from our dept pub list. It looks a
good candiate for refine (things like authors spelt in 2-3 different ways -
note which are semi-consistent, etc.) My current idea is:
* bibliography in RIS , perhaps translated to CSV
* Refine
* retransform to RIS (or develop a RIS-CSV for Bibserver)
* import into Bibserver
*manual check on remaining problems
* maybe a second refine step
* maybe reconvert to RIS and re-enter into dept
* re-import into bibserver

I am really excited about everything. Our thinking is converging on (at
least)
* individuals and small groups create a communal bibserver
* they clean their local Bibserveras much as they need. (I am not a fan of
gloabl normalization - ORCID will slowly come and solve a few problems but
not all)
* assuming they are Open they publish their Bibserver
* Other groups in the same field (or instituion) publish their Bibservers
* the community then eveolves a strategy for normalizing and
disambiguations if they want. There might, for example, be a community
server of refined names. I'd rather provide my name to the community
correctly than worry about the bureacracy of ORCID (which will only do
academics in employment anyway)

P.

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Peter Murray-Rust
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