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

[Young,Jeff (OR)]

I take it back. It looks like you can hack the URLs of Open WorldCat's
citation service:

http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/oclc/61396956?page=citation

Now if someone could convince them to add a bit more structure to their
responses, clients could automate the extraction of their favorite form.

Jeff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:web4lib-
> bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Young,Jeff (OR)
> Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 3:53 PM
> To: web4lib
> Subject: RE: [Web4lib] _Wiki-based Bibliography Software and/or
Services
> ?_
> 
> 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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