Begin forwarded message: > From: Arthur Sale ahjs -- OZEMAIL.COM.AU > Date: December 15, 2011 4:42:47 PM EST > To: JISC-REPOSITORIES at JISCMAIL.AC.UK > Subject: Automating metadata extraction > > My attention was taken by the good deposit interface provided by Mendeley: > the researcher simply deposits (drag and drop) a pdf file, and hidden behind > the scenes an artificial intelligence program deduces the metadata (author, > title, abstract, references, page numbers, journal, etc) and presents these > in bulk to the researcher to confirm or edit. Much better than the clunky > upload facilities in many institutional repositories. > > What I?d like to ask this list: is: has anyone developed a similar interface > for institutional repositories, especially EPrints and DSpace? If so, what > experience have you had with it? > > Neil Jacobs pointed me to the discussion thread > http://gipp.com/jabref-automatic-metadata-extraction-from-pdf-files-like-mendeley-2, > which I am now exploring and leads to Jabref, but there may be other and > better tools available which are already integrated with a repository deposit > interface. Making deposit trivial is clearly a win-win situation for all of > us in achieving open access. > > Arthur Sale > University of Tasmania, Australia.
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