[open-bibliography] Bibsoup - can it handle large files?

Tue Jan 31 08:42:17 UTC 2012

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 4:16 AM, Jim Pitman <pitman at stat.berkeley.edu>wrote:

> Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> > I have uploaded our Centre publications list to
> > http://bibsoup.net/petermr/ucctest2.
>
> Good to see.
> Its a bit disappointing that this dataset contains no links to text or
> even abstracts.
>

This dataset is what the Centre compiles as a record of what the Centre has
published. It is simply an aggregation of material collected by the Centre
or sent in by staff like me. It was never designed to be put on the web.
There are many problems - duplications, missing journals, etc.

I suspect it's very typical of many academic departments. The point is
rather that Bibserver can enhance it. The faceted browsing is very powerful.

> This was facilitated in the legacy bibserver by scripted links to Google
> Scholar, e.g.
> this simple title link
>
>
> http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=++Ligand-Target+Prediction+using+Winnow+and+Naive+Bayesian+Algorithms+and+the+Implications+of+Overall+Performance+Statistics
>
> gets the user to an abstract of the first item
>
> Nigsch, F and A Bender and Jenkins, JL and Mitchell, JBO (2008)
> Ligand-Target Prediction using Winnow and Naive Bayesian Algorithms and
> the Implications of Overall Performance Statistics
> vol. 48, 2313-2325
>

Indeed. If it's easyfor Bibserver to include APIs then this should be a
feature request. It's up to the team to prioritize.

>
> As a feature request, I suggest a simple display option in any BibServer
> display to show scripted links to Google Scholar or other desired service
> e.g.
> Microsoft Academic or MathSciNet.
>
> Automated provision of such links, and better still, making it easy for
> users (or machines) to follow these links and harvest
> metadata  including e.g. abstracts from the sites they point to, would add
> great value to typical BibServer displays.
>
> This task could be facilitated by a BKN Linkserver, i.e. a BKN node
> dedicated to matching and enhancing biblio data uploaded anywhere to
> BibSoup.
> This is a basic repetetive task, given a single bibitem, of whatever
> standard, to enhance it as best as possible by machine matching
> with various sources, and thence create a multiply linked hybrid record
>  of superior quality.  I've been working towards this with experiments in
> Berkeley.
> Would be glad to have assistance on this. Experience with federated
> searching or multithreading should be helpful to build a prototype. I think
> the main
> issue is handling varied responses from multiple sources and offering them
> to user is a way that is readily mashed up to provide the composite record.
>
> So how/where do we make feature requests. I would support 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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