[openbiblio-dev] Huge bibliography in search for a new system

Thu Mar 3 21:05:22 UTC 2011

On 28 February 2011 10:37, Adrian Pohl <adrian.pohl at okfn.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> thank you Rufus for your fast answer. This sounds promising. We
> downloaded the source code and installed a local version of
> bibliographica but couldn't yet add an entry or create a list, neither
> locally nor on bibliographica.org.

We have not deployed feature to bibliographica.org yet but if you load
up some local data (do paster fixtures) and then visit e.g.

<localhost:5000/entry/GB9361575>

You should see collection stuff in sidebar (you may need to login to
actually create a collection).

> We would really like to test the list features so that we can
> recommend the use of bibliographica in the mentioned project. I'll
> have an eye on the list to see when the changes are active. Have you
> already planned a date for the first release?

We're hoping to have this finally and live in next 1-2 weeks.

Rufus

> Adrian
>
> 2011/2/22 Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>:
>> cc'ing openbiblio-dev
>> On 22 February 2011 16:26, Adrian Pohl <adrian.pohl at okfn.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>
>> Hi Adrian.
>>
>>>
>>> thanks for your answer Jonathan. Rufus and William, as we will have a
>>> phone call with the hispanics professor on thursday I would be really
>>> happy to know some more details about the development status of
>>> bibliographica.
>>>
>>> The most important questions I am interested in are:
>>>
>>> * Is bibliographica already (or in a few months) in a state that it
>>> can be used for such a project?
>>
>> It is practically all there! The collection system is now finished and ready
>> to deploy.
>> <https://bitbucket.org/okfn/openbiblio/issue/31/integrate-collection-reading-list-feature>
>>
>>>
>>> * Would there be much developing effort in the described project?
>>
>> No, creating dedicated 'reading lists / bibliographies' is exactly what the
>> collection system is for.
>>
>>>
>>> * Where can I download the source code of bibliographica?
>>
>> https://bitbucket.org/okfn/openbiblio
>> Please read the detailed INSTALL.txt
>>
>>>
>>> * Is it possible to create a SKOS classification for a particular
>>> bibliography within bibliographica? (Otherwise it would be no problem
>>> to do that seperately...)
>>
>> We're working to allow easy tagging:
>> <https://bitbucket.org/okfn/openbiblio/issue/23/tagging-api-for-entry-and-entity>
>> Now that we've done AJAX-y collection stuff doing tagging should be pretty
>> easy.
>>
>> Rufus
>

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