I LOVE this idea. Definitely going to try it. Thanks! (And thank to your clever intern)
Marliese Marliese Thomas User Engagement and Reference Librarian Samford University Library 205.726.2770 [email protected] 800 Lakeshore Drive Birmingham, Alabama 35229 -----Original Message----- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Karen Coombs Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 3:13 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] system for web-based annotated bibliography? I don't know if this would be of interest or not. A somewhat related project is a Wordpress plugin that an intern that worked for the OCLC Developer Network last fall wrote. The plugin allows you to search WorldCat when you are creating a post or page in Wordpress and choose items to add to that post/page. It embeds a cover image, title and some schema.org metadata into the post/page along with a link to the local library catalog. The idea was to facilitate easy embedding of metadata into posts/pages and avoid the multi-browser tab, cut and paste dance that I've seen a lot of librarians do when posting book reviews, recommendations, or bibliographies. It is smart enough to insert covers if a library has a Syndetics Subscription, if they don't it tries to get a cover from Open Library. The code is up in the Developer Network repository at - http://worldcat.org/devnet/code/devnetDemos/trunk/wordpress_plugins/worldcat_search/ You need a WorldCat Search API key to use it. I'm happy if anyone is interested in providing feedback about it, just keep in mind is very much a prototype. Karen On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Mark A. Matienzo <[email protected]> wrote: > For a current project, a colleague and I are using Octopress [0] and a > plugin to handle bibtex citations [1]. > > [0] http://octopress.org/ > [1] https://github.com/archome/jekyll-citation > > On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Ken Irwin <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> I'm starting in on a pretty big bibliography project, for what I expect will >> be a web-based annotated bibliography. Kind of >> part-book-review-blog/part-bibliography. I'm wondering if there are any >> systems out there that would support this kind of thing. I think what I want >> is essentially a mashup of Zotero and Wordpress. Zotero to capture, wrangle, >> and output bib data, and Wordpress to handle the blog-like/text aspects, >> tagging, etc. I'm imaging a system that could be used like a regular blog, >> but that would also allow formatted bib output, e.g. spit out an MLA-style >> bibliography for all the books tagged as "travelogue", with or without >> annotations. >> >> Anybody have experience with something like this? Does it exist already? I'd >> rather not have to invent this one! >> >> Thanks! >> Ken
