The Bib App - Eric Larson and Nate Vack
Mar 1st, 2007 by Karen
The Bib App - Eric Larson and Nate Vack
Idea: UW Bibliography
- don’t know where people are publishing and need to capture this information
- Directory
- Citation
- Citation Management
- Archival rights (Sherpa/RoMEO)
What is it?
- 12,000 + Citation
- 2,700 Ready to Archive
- 9 Departments
- 257 People
Find items that are ready for deposit into Institutional Repositories
Written in Rails
How to use the system
- Import Directory Server data
- Add People
- Add Papers
- Collect the archival data from Sherpa
- want to know if you can upload and archive the publisher’s copy
- Flag publishers that let you upload and archive the publisher’s copy
- Use OpenURL to get electronic copy and save PDF to server
Features
- Tag cloud of terms
- List of people
- Find an Expert
- RSS feeds
- People
- Groups
To Do List (it is not perfect)
- Sherpa/RoMEO
- don’t have have complete coverage
- Can’t disambiguate what copy (publisher, pre-print, etc) can be archived
- Our de-duplication is jacked
- Name collisions
Get the code
Google Code Project - http://code.google.com/p/bibapp
