[open-bibliography] Collaborative creation of a bibliography

[Tom Morris]

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.

Why not create the records in tool with proper editing support like Zotero
or Mendeley (or even a Google Spreadsheet) and then convert them later?

Tom
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