[openbiblio-dev] Datasets spreadsheet

Thu Feb 2 18:39:16 UTC 2012

We can already import from csv. However now that bibjson has nested keys,
we will just need too add some catches.

But regardless of whether we do something with this and bibserver, it is
already a great resource that could be built on as is. And a Google
spreadsheet can be embedded in a web page too.
On Feb 2, 2012 6:15 PM, "Peter Murray-Rust" <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:

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> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Jim Pitman <pitman at stat.berkeley.edu>wrote:
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>> about
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>> > >
>> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AtbO6mZEvieCdDFzdkVNQld6Mnc5NEpGWVlRUVhvM3c#gid=0
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> This is a brilliant piece of work by Ross and deserves wider coverage. I
> hadn't thought of it before but a BibJSON collection based on the
> publishers (possibly the journal) would be a brilliant and rapid
> demonstration both of the value of BibJSON and the sorry state (IMO) of
> hybrid open access.
>
>
>> This is potentially extremely useful. I suggest should be developed as an
>> openbiblio resource subject
>> to emerging standards for maintaining such resources.
>>
>> > > If you're going to reuse this work (or do something similar), I'd
>> > > suggest explicitly storing the categories in a column rather than
>> > > making this information only available via color coding.  It's
>> > > impossible to filter, sort, search, facet, etc on a color.
>>
>> +1 from me. It is fine to keep this sort of data in a spreadsheet, but
>> its full content
>> should be exportable as csv or tsv, from which we can easily convert to
>> BibJSON and provide some kind of
>> BibServer display, and reuse for whatever other purposes.  I have a
>> couple of questions:
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>> 1) What is the procedure by which rows in this table can be
>> added/modified?
>>
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> Hard graft - reading the publisher web sites. They are awful.
>
>>
>> 2) What is the relation of this table to  the JISC sponsored
>> http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/ ?
>>
>> No formal relationship. Romeo works on journals, whereas hybrids are per
> article. I don't think they cover it. Also there is much fuzziness about
> the term "open access". DOAJ I think uses the SPARC label to denore
> BOAI-compliance
>
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>> 3) How to get a machine export of http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/ to
>> merge with Ross's data?
>> Anyone on this list part of the Romeo/Sherpa team?  Their email is
>> romeo at sherpa.ac.uk
>> May be good to invite them to this list if they are not already on it.
>>
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> I know Bill Hubbard. Let's see what is involved. I can see:
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> * translating Ross-googlespreadsheet to BibJSON. Probably an evening (I
> assume we can export as CSV).
> * working out a technology to enhance sherpa by overlaying Ross.bjson over
> their site. When someone click a journal it could also pop up the hybrid
> info. That would be very useful indeed
> * talking to sherpa about it
>
> --
> Peter Murray-Rust
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