Category Archives: JISC OpenBib

Comparing existing bib tools

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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Open Bibliography at the start of 2012

Adrian’s post about the German National Library prompted me to note down a few other exciting developments over the last month or so. Christmas and the holiday season may be perceived as a time for winding down, but not for … Continue reading

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BibServer screencast and user perspective

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

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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Thursday 19th January – Open Biblio Sprint: Day 3

Today we were joined by additional members of the OKFN team from various parts of the world – Ira, Sam and Primavera. Then the fun began… Sam and Mark discussed the interface between Open Biblio and the TEXTUS project, looking … Continue reading

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Wednesday 18th January – Open Biblio Sprint: Day 2

BibServer took precedence this morning, with Etienne, Ed and Mark continuing to develop the BibServer parsers… By March we want people to be able to download and run their own instance of the Server, or to provide a service whereby … Continue reading

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Tuesday 17th January – Open Biblio Sprint: Day 1

Today Etienne, Ed, Rufus, Mark, Peter and I met up to start the first sprint of the new year. We began by clarifying the purpose of the sprint, today’s agenda and the project overall. We stated our aims as follows: … Continue reading

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BibServer Code Sprint January 2011

BibServer team will be having a code sprint this week. When: Tuesday 17 Where: Cambridge, UK (and online) More details to follow.

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JISC Discovery 2012

Today (11th jan 2012) I am attending the JISC Discovery 2012 meeting to learn about the JISC projects aiming to increase open access to research materials. Here are some notes I took during the day: Joy Palmer – Mimas – … Continue reading

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Informing public access to peer reviewed scholarly publications and data resulting from publicly funded research

The US government (OSTP) has recently issued an RFI on Open Access to data resulting from publicly funded research. The deadline for responding to the RFI has been extended to January 12. http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/12/21/extended-deadline-public-access-and-digital-data-rfis Detailed responses are openly available for collaborative … Continue reading

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