Hey folks,
I've been lurking on this list since the beginning of time and saw
this fly by. Thanks Nemo for the shout out. That is pretty much what
Bibdex is about. My inspiration was a Big Hairy Goal to provide a
central place where the body of academic knowledge can be curated by
the public in a wiki style. It's different than Wikipedia because
there is no NPOV and often research needs to be secret.
I originally tried this with both MeatballWiki and a similar service
called BibWiki. Bibdex is my latest adaptation based on what I learnt.
The current iteration embraces the face that academia is built on
controversy. Different groups need to have space to express different
opinions apart from others. So, I rebuilt the software so that
research groups can create their own public annotated bibliographies
and control who has access to write to those bibliographies, much like
Google Groups has different levels of public and private access
control.
My understanding is that WikiCite is focused specifically on the needs
of the WMF projects. That has its own set of interesting use cases.
By the way, the
http://www.openlibrary.org project is very inspiring
and in a similar vein, albeit restricted to books.
Cheers,
Sunir, Bibdex
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
<nemowiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Brian J Mingus, 19/07/2010 22:20:
The basic idea is a centralized wiki that
contains citation information that
other MediaWikis and WMF projects can then reference using something like a
{{cite}} template or a simple link. The community can document the citation,
the author, the book etc.. and, in one idealization, all citations across
all wikis would point to the same article on WikiCite. Users can use this
wiki as their personal bibliography as well, as collections of citations can
be exported in arbitrary citation formats.
I have already mentioned it before, but this description looks quite
similar to
http://bibdex.org/ . Maybe we should join forces (i.e., send
your proposal also to Sunir Shah).
Nemo
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