OpenBiblio
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About
- Project Originator: Rufus Pollock
- What is it: Open bibliographic data
- Aims:
- To obtain and run an open bibliographic system suitable personal and large scale use.
- Comment: Most likely this will not mean writing a new one but rather installing (and customizing) an existing system
Existing Work, Tools and Discussion
Existing Discussion
- http://netapps.muohio.edu/blogs/darcusb/darcusb/archives/2004/11/27/citation-ids
- excellent discussion of unique identifiers with a lot of interesting comments
- Slashdot thread from Apr 2006
- http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Internet_20Book_20Database -- lengthy discussion with useful information but no obvious result
Existing Software
- Excellent listing at: http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/bib/openbib.html
- http://www.pybliographer.org/ is python based, stable and looks pretty good
- See also bibdesk: http://bibdesk.sourceforge.net/
- Zotero: http://www.zotero.org/
- Released late 2006 and when stable 1.0 at end of October 2007
- Plugin to firefox to provide full in-browser bibliographic management
- 'Scrapes' data from web pages and uses sqlite as backend database, can export to a myriad of formats and integrates with various other stuff (Word, OO etc)
- Personally, I'm not convinced that storing all the refs in browser is so great (though I guess the benefits are ease of cross-platform use) and would prefer a more decoupled setup where Zotero handles scraping and then allows automatic exporting to my file/system of choice (e.g. i use bibtex + subversion). --RufusPollock
Existing Data
- WorldCat at the OCLC is the central site for all libraries to share their bibliographic data. However it is not open. You can't get the data unless you become a partner (someone like Google or Yahoo) and it's not clear you can even contribute without getting accredited.
- Library of Congress
- Internet Scifi Database -- open with available data dump
