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Community discussions 2

It’s been a funny few weeks, with Easter meaning that various people have been out-and-about at various times, but as always, the community never rests… Following on from Community Discussions (1), here are the latest goings-on to raise your interest … Continue reading

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Community discussions

The Open Biblio core team are a small bunch, but there’s a wealth of people out there providing information and suggestions to make our work better and more widely known. The List is a key way for people to post … Continue reading

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Planning for the next three months

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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Day 3 of the March Sprint

This morning we were buzzing from the Meet-up, excited about the interesting people we met and the cool things they talked about. Graham Steel, who was in town for yesterday’s event, stopped by to see what the team was up … Continue reading

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#OpenDataEDB: the results

Last night was the first OKFN Meet-Up in Scotland* at the Ghillie Dhu, Edinburgh, run in collaboration with DevCSI. 19 people attended from around the city and nearby, including Glasgow, and those visiting for the Open Biblio Sprint represented Cambridge, … Continue reading

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Day 2 of the March Sprint

Today started well: Berkeley and PubMed contacted us about running a BibServer, which is great! It was also a day of comings and goings: Etienne arrived to code with Mark, Richard Jones of Cottage Labs dropped by to play around … Continue reading

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Installing BibServer from the repo on Mac OSX

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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Day 1 of the March Sprint

Agendas are funny things; you have an idea of what you want to do, you write a few bullet-points to focus it a little and you presume things will naturally lead on from one thing to the next… Well, not … Continue reading

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BibSoup beta: released

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

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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