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/
 * BibDesk is a graphical BibTeX-bibliography manager for Mac OS X.
 * 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.
 * http://www.oclc.org/worldcat/default.htm
 * Library of Congress
 * Internet Scifi Database -- open with available data dump