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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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Day 3 of the March Sprint

Posted on March 14, 2012 by Naomi Lillie

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

Posted on March 14, 2012 by Naomi Lillie

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

Posted on March 13, 2012 by Naomi Lillie

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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Day 1 of the March Sprint

Posted on March 12, 2012 by Naomi Lillie

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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March Sprint and Meet-up

Posted on March 1, 2012 by Naomi Lillie

There will be a coding and planning sprint for the project team in Edinburgh on Monday 12th and Tuesday 13th March, with tying-up of loose ends on Wednesday 14th for those still around. Following on from the productivity of January’s … 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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Open Bibliography at the start of 2012

Posted on February 6, 2012 by Naomi Lillie

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

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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