Just a quick note (am in a hurry) that this is interesting Peter. It's similar to my blog post about "distributed citation processing" from a little while ago. This does get at the issue of thinking through identifiers.
On 10/27/05, pt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been working on a technical report in OpenOffice.org which will > eventually require a proper bibliography but I have no idea how I > might make that when the time comes. > > The following workflow has occurred to me. > > As I write, I've been making hyperlinks to various web resources, lots > of government pages, but a few refereed papers from various sources. > This is fine while I'm in draft mode and the document is usable and > sharable. > > Later, when I want to publish it more formally it would be great if > some software could find all my links and for each one look for a > bibliographic reference in my local store (whatever that might be) and > if there is none search other places that might have bibliographic > data linked to that URL. If no data can be found it would add an entry > to my database with as much data as it could pre-set (eg title may be > able to be scraped from an HTML page) so I can fill out the rest. Once > I have entered the data locally it should be aggregated 'up' to my > workgroup / institution. > > Everything I want to refer to in the report I'm working on now is > available on the open web, but I could refer to books, say, by > pointing at the local campus library system on the web (with some > convention for page references) and that should be enough for smart > software to automatically grab the details for my bibliography later. > > This is like the idea of adding a citation by reference but without > needing a formal ID. It's like the EndNote 'cite while you write' > somewhat backwards, with citation coming long before 'proper' data > capture. > > To support this I'm thinking that I want a personal version of an > Institutional Repository, with a full text copy of as much as possible > of what I cite, not just a bibliographic database. So the > bibliographic software would fetch stuff that I refer to an archive it > for me in case it moves or disappears. > > > -- > Peter (pt) Sefton > Toowoomba 4350 > Queensland, Australia > Phone: +61 4 1032 6955 > Web: http://ptsefton.com > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
