Thanks for the tips Claudia! Bibsonomy looks excellent - does it have good export functionality? Also is it possible to collaboratively edit bibliographies?
Jonathan On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 9:40 PM, Claudia Mueller-Birn <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jonathan, > > Do you know Bibsonomy (http://www.bibsonomy.org/)? There are templates > available such as this > http://www.bibsonomy.org/publ/layout/tablerefsabsbibsort/user/clmueller/myown?items=1000. > The columns are sortable. > > Another solution could be smile/json, for example such as here > http://groups.csail.mit.edu/haystack/publications.html > > :::Claudia > > On Nov 30, 2009, at 4:20 PM, Jonathan Gray wrote: > >> I currently have several ideas for projects for which I want to create >> large, collaboratively maintained online bibliographies (or >> bibliographic indexes/databases)... >> >> I wonder if anyone has any ideas for any (open source) tools which >> might be good for this? Or where I could ask? >> >> A few notes on the kind of thing I am looking for: >> * There are quite a few static HTML bibliographies out there, but >> I'd like to be able to do basic queries on my bibliographies, rather >> than just viewing them as a list. E.g. organise by country of author, >> by language of work, order works chronologically, order according to >> whether 'primary' or 'secondary' material (this will probably be a >> non-standard field!), and so on. >> * Not limited to books, but to articles, primary sources >> (manuscripts), audiovisual material - as well as pointing to online >> sources (especially public domain texts). >> * Ability to annotate bibliography (comments on works)... >> * Preferably using some kind of standard format for bibliographic >> metadata - and (in an ideal world) flexibility to output records in >> different formats (MLA, Harvard...) >> * Preferably I'd like to have some control over where these are >> hosted (i.e. not using a proprietary/third party service). >> * In the short term this would be in English, and would contain >> works from multiple languages, but over time support for being able to >> translate material into multiple languages would be valuable. >> * Also (again in an ideal world!) I'd like to be able to pull out >> dates associated with works and authors - which could be displayed on >> a timeline (by country, say). >> >> Any/all tips would be greatly appreciated! >> >> -- >> Jonathan Gray >> >> Community Coordinator >> The Open Knowledge Foundation >> http://www.okfn.org >> >> _______________________________________________ >> okfn-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss >> > > -- Jonathan Gray Community Coordinator The Open Knowledge Foundation http://www.okfn.org _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
