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The BibApp, Eric Larson and Nate Vack
1 Mar 07
The BibApp
Eric Larson and Nate Vack
Wendt Library, UW-Madison
Wendt serves College of Engineering
also Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing
– ad hoc assistance
– digital publishing
– copyright assistance
– fund for open access publishing
libraries don’t know a lot about where people are publishing
– capture campus bibl for UW faculty pubs
– Eric is liaison for engineering, can use that
– capture citations talking to faculty, through refworks, through IEEE etc
– create a BibApp that creates an identity for each faculty member, lists their pubs, archives (eventually)
– also adds their identities to one or more groups (dept, institute, etc)
. . . lovely demo. . .
– screen cast will be mounted on C4L page
– added a faculty member from UIUC from their LDAP server
– searched his work in Engineering Village
– export/import citations (does dedupe with bugs)
pilot project; not live, not even close
– tag clouds
– popular journals
– popular publishers
– “find an expert” : this is a feature that actually works; draws data from faculty member’s actual publications
– at individual level, can also see co-authors, journals, publishers, and specific citations
– rss feeds for people, groups
– funky keyword timeline tool: slider to scan through evolving keywords attached to a group by year
– visualization tool showing connections between co-authors
challenges
– sherpa data not ideal
– author name collisions
http://code.google.com/p/bibapp/
more stable by August, 2007
Posted by pzed on March 1, 2007 at 11.58am
Categories: code4lib 2007, conferences, libraries
