[open-bibliography] Collaborative creation of a bibliography

Thu Jan 31 23:31:13 UTC 2013

On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 5:54 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.
>
> 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?
>

Better yet, why not just have them download the preformatted citations.
 They're available in all popular bib formats:
 BIBTeX
EndNote
RefMan
Refer
Medline
CIF
SGML
Plain Text

e.g. http://scripts.iucr.org/cgi-bin/biblio_page?hb7009

either that or use a bookmarklet to extract the data from the HTML

Tom
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