Hi,
Recently I had the vision of a kind of DBLP for the field of library and information science. There are some commercial bibliographic databases like Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA), INFODATA, some public repositories like E-LIS, some open bibliographic databases like DABI (German), and a rich variety of bibliographic data that is only available embedded on web pages. The latter includes for instance the encyclopedia of library and information science [1] and the Code4Lib journal [2]. [1] http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713172967 [2] http://journal.code4lib.org/issues During some procrastination I wrote a screen scraper to collect bibliographic data for all Code4Lib journal articles. It looks like there are 100 right now, including book reviews and editorials. You can find the scraper script [3] and the resulting bibliography [4] in a git repository [5] [3] http://github.com/nichtich/dblis/blob/master/scripts/code4libjournal.pl [4] http://github.com/nichtich/dblis/blob/master/data/code4libjournal/code4libjournal.bib [5] http://github.com/nichtich/dblis Feel free to fork and add more scrapers or raw bibliographic data. I doubt that one social cataloging system fits all needs, and linked data is more the method than the goal, so just aggregating related bibliographic data in any format I can get, is an easy way to start with. Of course you can also just grab the Code4Lib Journal bibliography, and forget about the vision. I also tried to import the data to Mendeley and created a Code4Lib journal group [6]. Unfortunately the BibTeX import of Mendeley does not fully support some fields like "month", "day", and "abstract" - you can vote and comment on a feature request [7]. [6] http://www.mendeley.com/library/group/607411/ [7] http://feedback.mendeley.com/forums/4941-mendeley-feedback/suggestions/128222-improve-bibtex-import Cheers Jakob -- Verbundzentrale des GBV (VZG) Digitale Bibliothek - Jakob Voß Platz der Goettinger Sieben 1 37073 Goettingen - Germany +49 (0)551 39-10242 http://www.gbv.de jakob.v...@gbv.de