On Mon, 30 Nov 2009, 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?
Mendeley is an online bibliography database where bibliographies from
individual users can be shared. I am not all too family with it, but I
think it would be difficult/impossible to organize, e.g., by country of
author.
I would suggest Semantic MediaWiki. There you can define you own fields,
e.g., language and 'primary' or 'secondary' matrial. It will be easy to
annotate the works - you just do that in the normal wiki text.
I believe the developer of Markus Krötzsch has his publication ordered
with Semantic MediaWiki.
I am using a poor man's version of semantic-like MediaWiki - without the
Semantics MediaWiki extension - to organize and annotate bibliographic
information from neuroscience, see, e.g.,
http://neuro.imm.dtu.dk/wiki/Right_temporoparietal_cortex_activation_during_visuo-proprioceptive_conflict
By extracting the annotated/structured content and putting it into a
standard database I can do off-wiki queries.
With other MediaWiki extensions it will probably not be that difficult to
do time line, see the easyTimeline for example.
/Finn
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!
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Finn Aarup Nielsen, DTU Informatics, Denmark
Lundbeck Foundation Center for Integrated Molecular Brain Imaging
http://www.imm.dtu.dk/~fn/ http://nru.dk/staff/fnielsen/
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