[open-bibliography] Source of bibliographic refs for humanities?

Wed Jun 27 08:57:38 UTC 2012

Hi Sam,

Philpapers has an OAI-PMH interface onto user-uploaded content, but does
not share any other info due to licensing restrictions. However, at least
some of their content is open access, and their terms and conditions
restrict use for things like sale and so on.

If you contact David as Jim suggests, and find out if they would be willing
to provide a dump of all or some of their data, we could build a bibsoup
collection out of it and use it for your textus demos. Also, I note on
their API page that they say a JSON API is coming soon - so if we can get
them interested by offering bibsoup functionality on their pages, which
would give them a JSON interface, then all the better.

Mark

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 7:17 PM, Jim Pitman <pitman at stat.berkeley.edu>wrote:

> > On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Tom Oinn <tom.oinn at okfn.org> wrote:
> > > Is there a BibServer instance I could point at which is likely to
> > > contain the kind of references a scholar in the humanities would wish
> > > to use as citations? I'm thinking of philosophy in particular but a
> > > broader index would be fine.
>
> I suggest you approach David Bourget http://www.dbourget.com/  maintainer
> of http://philpapers.org/ for permission
> to run a BibServer instance over PhilPapers data:
> "PhilPapers is a comprehensive directory of online philosophical articles
> and books by academic philosophers.
> We monitor journals in many areas of philosophy, as well as archives and
> personal pages.
> We also accept articles directly from users, who can provide links or
> upload copies."
>
> --Jim P.
>
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