[openbiblio-dev] Preliminary list

Mon Mar 21 12:54:53 UTC 2011

I might suggest putting into a system designed to handle bibliographic data such as Zotero as preferable to a spreadsheet - that way you'd be confident you were able to capture the data you need (whatever you have) and be able to export readily to other formats (possibly including RDF (BIBO) - although not sure if exports in this format are available yet)

Owen

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On 21 Mar 2011, at 12:22, Jonathan Gray wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Our Open Government Data Working Group is going to be establishing a
> bibliography of articles, reports, monographs, etc related to open
> government data [1]. Work has already started on this, and we have
> some material in unstructured text format [2]. We will also soon have
> around 50 pages of bibliographic material which is being donated to us
> by Katleen Janssen, a legal researcher at KU Leuven.
> 
> While I understand Bibliographica is not yet ready to be used for this
> yet [3], we're thinking of putting some material in a Google Docs
> Spreadsheet, which can then later be imported when ready. We're
> thinking of including fields like:
> 
>  * Title
>  * Journal?
>  * Author(s)
>  * Date of publication
>  * Publisher name
>  * Publisher location
>  * URL
>  * URL - date accessed
>  * ISBN
>  * ISSN
> 
> How should we proceed? Are there standards fields that we should use?
> E.g. should we separate journal title and monograph title? What is the
> easiest way to do this quickly so that we can get people loading
> material into the spreadsheet in a way which will be usable once
> Bibliographica is ready?
> 
> (This also applies to other areas - e.g. I'm keen to do this ASAP in
> relation to a folktales bibliography and one related to philosophy.)
> 
> All the best,
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> [1] http://ideas.okfn.org/ideas/54/open-government-data-bibliography-project
> [2] http://opengovernmentdata.okfnpad.org/bibliography
> [3] At least as originally conceived - i.e. as a basic open web
> service to allow non-technical users to easily create, curate and
> share lists of publications. Cf.
> http://jonathangray.org/2010/01/22/bibliographica/
> 
> -- 
> Jonathan Gray
> 
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