Re: lib'n authored bibliography software

From: Mark A. Matienzo <mark_at_nyob>
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:51:50 -0400
To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
If you're at all comfortable with Drupal, I suggest looking into the
Biblio module: <http://drupal.org/project/biblio>

Mark A. Matienzo
Digital Archivist, Manuscripts and Archives
Yale University Library


On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Michael Lindsey
<mlindsey_at_law.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> Hi all,
> We periodically create bibliographies to support faculty projects and are at
> the point where we either want to roll our own re-usable software or adopt
> something from the wild.  We need something that can understand library
> metadata on the way in and on the way out.  We also need something that can
> be available as a data store to different webapps, e.g. a subject guide, a
> faculty publications webapp, etc.  In other words, we need the datastore to
> be queryable from a script.
> I'm looking at Zotero, which seems to be hot on the harvesting end, but
> seems to be conceived of as a tool for a single researcher at their browser.
>  I would need to flash Zotero's SQLite instance to a db table on my
> webserver so the data would be available to scripts.  Ideally, my harvesting
> team could interact with the web application directly so there would be no
> harvesting/export/import latency.
> Any ideas if this is something we've already tackled in libraryland?
> Thanks,
> Michael Lindsey
> Law Library, UC Berkeley
>
Received on Mon Jun 28 2010 - 13:52:10 EDT