Bibliography topic

• need some statement of needs and current approach, for circulation

Requirements include:

• central management, not necessarily public but could be
• support analysis
• ideally would interface with tools like Zotero

Possibly accommodate multiple levels of validation: for materials actually cited by DHQ, these would be vetted; for materials contributed by others, these could be vetted by DHQ if linked by DHQ (i.e. gradual vetting process as materials are cited)

NB CrossRef, DOI management: DHQ should join CrossRef

SS mentions topic maps: as a way of enabling user exploration

• not invent a topic map system ourselves, but feed into another system
• create RDF descriptors for each article?
• example from museums: topic map for each artifact

What are the first steps?

• keyword collection? from authors? from readers? from reviewers?
• "this is what the computer thinks this article is about: what do you think?"
• harvest tags from individual readers and display
• WP notes that author-supplied keywords are not so useful
• need to publish/expose our XML and let people mess with it

Other ideas:

• associate each article with a thumbnail image of some kind (author-supplied?)

JF and WP continue on bibliography:

• start capturing data in the fall using an adequately granular system (Melanie)
• investigate Zotero, install, experiment, see what the potential for integration is, what the granularity and conventions for data representation are (Wendell)
• look at EndNote also, but with less urgency
• draft a prospectus/white paper on this, describing inputs, outputs, integration desired with other systems (Julia)
• start looking at integration with DHQ systems at a lower/more technical level (John W and Michelle)

-- JuliaFlanders - 30 Jul 2008