Hey folks, I've been lurking on this list since the beginning of time and saw this fly by. Thanks Nemo for the shout out. That is pretty much what Bibdex is about. My inspiration was a Big Hairy Goal to provide a central place where the body of academic knowledge can be curated by the public in a wiki style. It's different than Wikipedia because there is no NPOV and often research needs to be secret.
I originally tried this with both MeatballWiki and a similar service called BibWiki. Bibdex is my latest adaptation based on what I learnt. The current iteration embraces the face that academia is built on controversy. Different groups need to have space to express different opinions apart from others. So, I rebuilt the software so that research groups can create their own public annotated bibliographies and control who has access to write to those bibliographies, much like Google Groups has different levels of public and private access control. My understanding is that WikiCite is focused specifically on the needs of the WMF projects. That has its own set of interesting use cases. By the way, the http://www.openlibrary.org project is very inspiring and in a similar vein, albeit restricted to books. Cheers, Sunir, Bibdex On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]> wrote: > Brian J Mingus, 19/07/2010 22:20: >> The basic idea is a centralized wiki that contains citation information that >> other MediaWikis and WMF projects can then reference using something like a >> {{cite}} template or a simple link. The community can document the citation, >> the author, the book etc.. and, in one idealization, all citations across >> all wikis would point to the same article on WikiCite. Users can use this >> wiki as their personal bibliography as well, as collections of citations can >> be exported in arbitrary citation formats. > > I have already mentioned it before, but this description looks quite > similar to http://bibdex.org/ . Maybe we should join forces (i.e., send > your proposal also to Sunir Shah). > > Nemo > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
