[Web4lib] _Wiki-based Bibliography Software and/or Services ?_

[Young,Jeff (OR)]

Thanks for the plug, Ryan.

WikiD was a research prototype to extend wiki principles to collections
of structured data (http://alcme.oclc.org/wikid/). I never implemented a
citation/bibliographic service for it, but it's within the range of
possibilities.

WikiD is currently being used behind the scenes to support contributed
content in Open WorldCat (i.e. Reviews, Notes, and TOCs). For example:
http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/isbn/1594200637&tab=reviews.

(BTW, there is a link on Open WorldCat pages named "Cite this item" that
produces various styles of bibliographic citation. I can't imagine why
they didn't implement this as a web service, though, so you could
interact with it directly by hacking URLs.)

WikiD is available as a CVS module, but it's not well supported and I
wouldn't recommend it as a solution. Nevertheless, many of the concepts
behind WikiD have been incorporated into a new system here at OCLC
called the Registry Framework Architecture that we are using as a
general-purpose platform for managing arbitrary collections of items
(e.g. the Institutions collection at
http://worldcat.org/registry/Institutions). The Open WorldCat
contributed-content mentioned above will eventually be moved to this new
platform. 

The plan is to make the Registry Framework available as open-source, but
it's not clear when that will happen since demand for it within OCLC is
keeping us plenty busy for now.

Jeff 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:web4lib-
> bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Ryan Eby
> Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 1:26 PM
> To: web4lib
> Subject: Re: [Web4lib] _Wiki-based Bibliography Software and/or
Services
> ?_
> 
> I missed the original message so apologies if this has already been
said
> but what your describing sounds similar to OCLC's WikiD project which
I
> believe can handle bib data in multiple formats and crosswalk them. I
> believe it also powers part of OpenWorldCat, not sure about the
citation
> output part.
> 
> http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/wikid/
> 
> Unfortunately I don't think it's something you can download or install
but
> if you really have interest in it you can probably contact Jeff
> Young:
> 
> http://www.oclc.org/research/staff/young.htm
> 
> I've seen him talk about it a few times and I can't say I've fully
grokked
> it but it does exist.
> 
> Ryan Eby
> 
> On 4/30/07, Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se> wrote:
> > Gerry Mckiernan wrote:
> >
> > > I am greatly interested in identifying wiki-based software or
> > > systems that provide for the input of bibliographic data and the
> > > output of a standard bibliography.
> >
> > Not a tool for creating standard (personal) bibliographies, but a
> > wiki-like system (though some say it's absolutely non-wiki, because
it
> > uses structured data and not free text) for maintaining a global
> > *disc*ography is musicbrainz.org.
> >
> > A collaborative filtering website that can output standard
> > bibliographies (personal citation lists) is citeulike.org.
> >
> > And of course there is librarything.com, which perhaps is not
> > wiki-like enough.
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> >   Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
> >   Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se
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