Hi Stuart, The reason my name is in the BibApp acknowledgments is that I was highly involved with BibApp when I worked at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (my role previous to joining DuraSpace). What has become BibApp 1.0 was a collaboration between colleagues/friends at University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I am glad that I have had the opportunity to help out on such an exciting project! Since I've joined DuraSpace, I've still been loosely involved with BibApp, but as more of an external consultant, and not as a programmer. My time is more devoted to DSpace these days.
As to your question about DSpace-BibApp integration: BibApp is an entirely separate system and open source project, which is supported by University of Illinois & University of Wisconsin (and I know they are now in search of additional collaborators). That being said, one of the nice features of BibApp is that it can generate SWORD-compliant submission packages. This means that you can gather/massage your metadata via BibApp, and you can also upload files (research papers, etc) to BibApp. BibApp will then generate a SWORD-compliant submission package (of those files and metadata) that you can submit to any SWORD-enabled repository (including DSpace, Fedora and EPrints). So, in that way, BibApp already has one basic integration point with your normal IR system. At this time, there are no specific plans to build tighter integrations between DSpace and BibApp. (I'm never one to rule anything out completely -- but, there are no plans right now, and any plans to build tighter integrations would need to come from, or be approved by, our DSpace community.) In my mind, BibApp is a compliment to the normal IR system, but it doesn't replace it by any means (especially since BibApp doesn't attempt to preserve/archive any files uploaded to it). But, BibApp can be a tool to help make population of your IR a bit easier (which is how University of Wisconsin has used it early on). There's much more information about BibApp on its website (including many past presentations on the 'About' page): http://bibapp.org In addition, for those who will be at OR2010, Sarah Shreeves and Bill Ingram (from the BibApp team) have a presentation on BibApp 1.0 on Tuesday morning at 11:30am. So, that's another opportunity to learn more, and ask followup questions. - Tim On 7/1/2010 8:52 PM, stuart yeates wrote: > I notice you on the acknowledgement list Tim. > > Would you like to comment specifically on the extent and nature of any > dpsace-BibApp integration? > > cheers > stuart > > Tim Donohue wrote: >> (This message is being sent to multiple lists; please excuse >> duplication.) >> >> >> The BibApp development team is happy and proud to announce the 1.0 >> release of BibApp! >> >> BibApp is a campus research gateway and expert finder. It matches >> researchers on your campus or research center with their publication >> data and mines that data to see collaborations, create visualizations >> of areas of research, and find experts in research areas. With BibApp, >> it is easy to see what publications can be placed on the Web for >> greater access and impact. BibApp can push those publications directly >> into an institutional repository. >> >> BibApp allows researchers and research groups to promote research, >> find collaborators on campus, and make research more accessible. It >> also allows libraries to better understand research happening in local >> departments, facilitate conversations about author rights with >> researchers, and ease the population of the institutional repository. >> Finally, BibApp allows campus administrators to achieve a clearer >> picture of collaboration and scholarly publishing trends on campus. >> >> BibApp is the result of a collaboration between the University of >> Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. >> The Illinois Informatics Institute at the University of Illinois >> (https://www.informatics.illinois.edu/icubed/) provided generous >> funding for the development of the 1.0 release of BibApp. >> >> BibApp is a Ruby on Rails application, coupled with the Solr/Lucene >> search engine, and either MySQL or PostgreSQL as its datastore. It >> uses open standards and protocols such as OpenURL and SWORD and >> automatically pulls in data from third party sources such as Google >> Books and the Sherpa/Romeo publisher policy database. BibApp imports >> publication data in RIS, MEDLINE and Refworks XML bibliography formats >> and exports data in several citation formats (APA, Chicago, IEEE, MLA, >> more) via CiteProc. BibApp also provides a web services API for >> delivering data as XML, YML, JSON, and RDF. BibApp is released under a >> University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License >> (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/UoI-NCSA.php). >> >> Live installations of BibApp can be found at: >> >> * University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign -- >> http://connections.ideals.illinois.edu >> * The MBLWHOI Library at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution -- >> http://bibapp.mbl.edu/ >> * The University of Kansas Medical Center -- http://experts.kumc.edu/ >> >> Next steps for the project include a 1.1 release that will include >> internationalization and a richer authentication/authorization system. >> The team is also in the process of expanding the development community >> around BibApp. >> >> For software downloads, contact information, and more information >> about BibApp, please visit http://www.bibapp.org/, and also follow on >> Twitter at http://twitter.com/bibapp >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint >> What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? >> Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first >> _______________________________________________ >> Dspace-general mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-general >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? 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