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BiblioHack: Day 2, part 2

Posted on June 14, 2012 by Naomi Lillie

Pens down! Or, rather, key-strokes cease! BiblioHack has drawn to a close and the results of two days’ hard labour are in: A Bibliographic Toolkit Utilising BibServer Peter Murray-Rust reported back on what was planned, what was done, and the … Continue reading →

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BiblioHack: Day 2, part 1

Posted on June 14, 2012 by Naomi Lillie

After easing into the day with breakfast and coffee, each of the 3 sub-groups gave an overview of the mini-project’s aim and fed back on the evening’s progress: Peter Murray-Rust revisited the overarching theme of ‘A Bibliographic Toolkit’ and the … Continue reading →

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BiblioHack: Day 1

Posted on June 14, 2012 by Naomi Lillie

The first day of BiblioHack was a day of combinations and sub-divisions! The event attendees started the day all together, both hackers and workshop / seminar attendees, and Sam introduced the purpose of the day as follows: coders – to … Continue reading →

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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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BibServer new functionality

Posted on March 19, 2012 by Mark MacGillivray

During the sprint last week we made a lot of progress with the new functionality for version 0.5.0 – however, Etienne and I got so excited by some new ideas that we did not finish on time; apologies for the … 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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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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