[Web4lib] Server software/package for bib database of faculty publications?

Andrew Darby darby.lists at gmail.com
Fri Jun 15 14:49:45 EDT 2007


We developed such a thing here, and I thought about open-sourcing it
until I saw BibApp, which is much more robust.  But, if you're
interested in a humble PHP/MySQL tool, I could probably share the
code:

http://www.ithacalibrary.com/scholars/

On 6/15/07, Tom Keays <tomkeays at gmail.com> wrote:
> See BibApp from the University of Wisconsin. The project leads seem to be
> Eric Larson and Nathan Vack.
>
> Presentation video at Code4Lib Conference 2007:
> http://www.code4lib.org/2007/larson
>
> "The Rails-powered BibApp is the ultimate mashup of article databases,
> citation management software, and digital repositories. To date, it's helped
> us add over 2000 articles to our repository by organizing citations,
> identifying articles we can archive, and generating DSpace import packages.
> It also lets us analyze research produced on campus, illustrating popular
> research topics, departmental affiliations, and collaborative relationships
> between researchers."
>
> Slides from presentation given at Open Repositories Conference 2007:
> http://ewlarson.wendtlibrary.org/presentations/OR2007-BibApp.pdf
>
> Google Code: http://code.google.com/p/bibapp/
>
> I've seen a test instance of BibApp. It is quite nice.
>
> There's also an open source wiki-based bibliographic management tool,
> intended to be a replacement for EndNote or RefWorks called WikIndx. It
> looks quite good also.
>
> Homepage: http://wikindx.sourceforge.net/
>
> Demonstration Instance: http://www.sirfragalot.com/wikindx3/
>
> Tom
>
> On 6/15/07, Jennifer Heise <jenne.heise at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hullo!
> > We are planning to create a web-based bibliographic database of faculty
> > publications for our University. We are wondering whether there is already
> > an open-source package out there that would help us set this up quickly
> > and
> > easily? Any suggestions would be welcome.
> > Thank you!
> > -- Jennifer Heise
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