[open-bibliography] Collaborative creation of a bibliography

[Peter Murray-Rust]

On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 10:54 PM, Tom Morris <tfmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 10:41 PM, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk>wrote:
>
>> I am giving a tutorial/workshop in about 18 hours on creating a
>> scientific knowledgebase. I was thinking of getting each participant to
>> create 1 simple bibliographic record by cutting and pasting from the
>> Literature and then aggregating them.
>>
>> * is bibserver working? If not are there any existing examples of
>> Bibserver/Bibsoup we can show?
>> * can we upload individual records sequentially or do we have to bundle
>> them.
>> * they will probably cut and paste into an EtherPad - what is the best
>> format? BibJSON?
>
>
> Hand editing JSON seems like pretty much the last thing you'd want people
> to do if you're trying to entice them with frictionless collaboration.
>

We were in a classroom environment and there were reasons why this was a
good thing to do.



-- 
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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