Category Archives: BibServer

Recent BibServer technical development

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Mark MacGillivray

Along with the recent push of new front-end functionality to BibServer, and demonstrated on BibSoup, we have also applied some changes to the back-end. The new scheduled collection uploader is now runnable as a stand-alone tool, to which source URLs … Continue reading →

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BibJSON updates

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Mark MacGillivray

Following recent discussion on our mailing list, BibJSON has been updated to adopt JSON-LD for all your linked data needs. This enables us to keep the core of BibJSON pretty simple whilst also opening up potential for more complex usage … Continue reading →

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New BibServer features available on BibSoup

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Mark MacGillivray

A couple of months ago the development team had a Sprint and came up with some cool ideas of how to improve the user experience for BibServer and, subsequently, BibSoup. Have a play with the new features and see below … Continue reading →

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Planning for the next three months

Posted on March 20, 2012 by Naomi Lillie

We have developed BibJSON… We’ve improved BibServer… We’ve made BibSoup… …But what’s next? The nature of cutting-edge technology is that it is fast-paced and constantly adapting. We may think we’ve come up with a good idea, but if it turns … Continue reading →

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Installing BibServer from the repo on Mac OSX

Posted on March 13, 2012 by Naomi Lillie

The following guest post is by Edmund Chamberlain who works at Cambridge Unviversity Library. As part of my work on the Open Bibliography project, I wanted to test how easy it would be for an average Systems Librarian such as … Continue reading →

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JSON-LD / BibJSON

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Mark MacGillivray

There have been requests on our mailing list recently to consider the various options for supporting validation of BibJSON and for supporting namespacing. These two options require some further consideration. Validation Efforts so far around BibJSON have focussed on building … Continue reading →

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BibSoup beta: released

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Naomi Lillie

BibSoup is here! And it’s going to revolutionise how you work with bibliographic metadata. Peter has been blogging for a while about BibSoup (see here for the basics and here for how to use it) and we’ve mentioned it in … Continue reading →

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Comparing existing bib tools

Posted on February 7, 2012 by Naomi Lillie

Update to this post: turns out there was a page, just not one I was aware of – please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_reference_management_software. I have linked to this from http://wiki.okfn.org/Projects/jiscopenbib2. Isn’t it handy when people have already done the job for us… … Continue reading →

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BibServer screencast and user perspective

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Naomi Lillie

BibServer software allows people (you, me, the person in the office down the road) to hold and share collections of searchable data. Be it the list of books you have to read for your course this semester, the publications you … Continue reading →

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Sprint videos

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Naomi Lillie

Last week’s sprint produced more than just parsers, game-plans and blog posts (Day 1, Day 2 and Day 3): it also allowed Peter and Naomi to stretch their directorial wings and produce some video blogs to record what we were … Continue reading →

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