Re: Tools for collaboratively developing online bibliographic indexes

Finn, Puneet: I've known about Mendeley for a while (via Victor
Henning) but have yet to investigate. Puneet - does it have good
export functions, and do you know how easy it would be to
collaboratively edit bibliographies? Also I would really want to
specific that the bibliographic data I contributed was open (ideally
in the public domain)...

Finn: I've also thought about using Semantic Media Wiki a little bit.
I've also had discussions with Rufus about using the software behind
publicdomainworks.net. My inclination is to continue to investigate
out-of-the-box bibliographic software first, and to start to
experiment if I can't find a good fit!

Also, I had a look at your excellent Brede Wiki, and was about to add
it to CKAN, before I realised that someone beat me to it!

  http://ckan.net/package/bredewiki

Have you seen our science working group?

  http://wiki.okfn.org/wg/science

Best wishes,

Jonathan

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 11:19 PM, Mr. Puneet Kishor <punkish@...> wrote:
>
> On Nov 30, 2009, at 4:49 PM, Finn Aarup Nielsen wrote:
>

Re: Tools for collaboratively developing online bibliographic indexes

On Nov 30, 2009, at 6:01 PM, Jonathan Gray wrote:

> Finn, Puneet: I've known about Mendeley for a while (via Victor
> Henning) but have yet to investigate. Puneet - does it have good
> export functions,

Exports to Endnote XML, RIS, and BibTex.

> and do you know how easy it would be to
> collaboratively edit bibliographies?

You create a shared biblio, and invite other Mendeley users. Say, you  
and I are collaborating on a project, such as co-authoring a paper,  
and we have divvied up our work. You invite me to your shared biblio,  
and I join it. As I add stuff to the shared collection, it shows up on  
your Mendeley Desktop, and vice versa.

Of course, our Mendeley Desktops sync with our respective web accounts  
as well, so all collections are accessible from anywhere.

It really is very simple.

> Also I would really want to
> specific that the bibliographic data I contributed was open (ideally
> in the public domain)...

You can make a biblio data a public collection, and even sync the  
attachments (the actual PDFs of the papers/articles) so they reside on  
your Mendeley web account, accessible by everyone.

Re: Vote for the official OKCon 2010 logo!

Thanks for all the votes on this! I think we should decide on this
ASAP - so if you haven't yet voted, please consider doing so at the
links below!

Jonathan

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray@...> wrote:
> Please vote for the official OKCon 2010 logo! I've set up a poll at:
>
>  http://doodle.com/5gzrz49aha27f3c9
>
> You can see the logos at:
>
>  http://wiki.okfn.org/okcon/logo
>
> --
> Jonathan Gray
>
> Community Coordinator
> The Open Knowledge Foundation
> http://www.okfn.org
>

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IRC meeting tonight (2009-12-01) from 1800 GMT on #okfn at irc.oftc.net

Hi all,

We're planning to meet up tonight on the #okfn IRC channel
(irc.oftc.net) at 1800 GMT.

You can connect using a web browser at: http://ur1.ca/4fh

If anyone's got anything they'd like to discuss, propose or work on,
please drop in!

Details of this and other (virtual) events are on the Google Calendar at:

  http://wiki.okfn.org/Events

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Information Society Free Virtual library - first 5.000 texts

Maybe interesting for some of you...

Begin forwarded message:
> 
> Dear colleague,
> 
> I am glad to inform you that the Edelstein Center for Social Research has
> launched a virtual library on the Information Society:
> http://www.bvce.org/SociedadeInformacao.asp  
> 
> The library consists of more than 5.000 of full articles, books and reports.
> We have in the pipeline another 5.000 texts which will be added to the
> library within the coming months. 
> 
> Please help us by indicating other individual and institutional sites with
> texts for our site   and sending your suggestions to improve our work by
> writing to:   bvce@...
> 
> All the best,
> 
> Bernardo Sorj
> 
> Director of the Edelstein Center for Social Research
> 
> 
> 
> Dr. Bernardo Sorj
> 
> <http://www.bernardosorj.com> www.bernardosorj.com
> 

Open Library places data in public domain!

Just noticed the CKAN package page for the Open Library was updated.
Not sure for how long this has been the case, but looks like they now
have explicit licensing information on the site:

  http://openlibrary.org/about/license

> All Open Library contributions are in the public domain. Open Library doesn't assert any copyright or
other proprietary rights over any of the material in the Open Library database. Furthermore, most of the
material in Open Library cannot be copyrighted as it consists only of facts which are not copyrightable in
the US (see Feist v. Rural Telephone Service).

> Our records come from many sources. Many of them come from the Library of Congress which, as a US Government
work, is also in the public domain.

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Re: Tools for collaboratively developing online bibliographic indexes

Thanks for the detail Puneet! You've convinced me, I'll definitely
give Mendeley a try. I'll also pop them a quick email asking whether
they've considered allowing users to explicitly define legal status of
bibliographic data.

Jonathan

On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 12:35 AM, Mr. Puneet Kishor <punkish@...> wrote:
>
> On Nov 30, 2009, at 6:01 PM, Jonathan Gray wrote:
>
>> Finn, Puneet: I've known about Mendeley for a while (via Victor
>> Henning) but have yet to investigate. Puneet - does it have good
>> export functions,
>
> Exports to Endnote XML, RIS, and BibTex.
>
>> and do you know how easy it would be to
>> collaboratively edit bibliographies?
>
> You create a shared biblio, and invite other Mendeley users. Say, you and I
> are collaborating on a project, such as co-authoring a paper, and we have
> divvied up our work. You invite me to your shared biblio, and I join it. As
> I add stuff to the shared collection, it shows up on your Mendeley Desktop,
> and vice versa.
>
> Of course, our Mendeley Desktops sync with our respective web accounts as
> well, so all collections are accessible from anywhere.
>
> It really is very simple.

Contacts management services?

I was wondering whether anyone had any suggestions for (preferably
free/open source) web services for contact management. Would this be
CiviCRM? Main thing I want to be able to do is to manage lists of
contacts by different themes (e.g. by country, by area of expertise,
etc.) - and to be able to take dated notes (about last contact).

James: if you think CiviCRM fits the bill, any chance we could work
together to get a test instance up and running?

(Sorry to keep using discuss list for 'Dear Lazyweb' type requests,
but I can hardly resist tapping into the wealth of expertise here! 
)

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Re: Contacts management services?

2009/12/2 Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray@...>:
> I was wondering whether anyone had any suggestions for (preferably
> free/open source) web services for contact management. Would this be
> CiviCRM? Main thing I want to be able to do is to manage lists of
> contacts by different themes (e.g. by country, by area of expertise,
> etc.) - and to be able to take dated notes (about last contact).
>
> James: if you think CiviCRM fits the bill, any chance we could work
> together to get a test instance up and running?

CiviCRM could do it, but the original reason it was interesting was
for tracking supporters and donations.  There are some others:
dual licensed :
  http://www.sugarcrm.com/crm/
not free:
  http://highrisehq.com/
  http://www.salesforce.com/uk/

Still haven't used Civi so I can't vouch for it in any way.  I'm happy
to up the priority on installing it if you think it is appropriate
(there is a trac ticket for this).  Have you tried the demo?

When I lasted looked, Civi seemed like the only credible free CRM for
non profits, but some of the paid ones may help you out for free.

James

Art/Artist/Gallery/Show Datasets

Heya.

I've been looking at online services such as aertfacts and artinfo that
provide information about artists, galleries and shows. They all have
the most reactionary terms of use.  Are there any freely available
services or datasets containing such information? Contemporary or
historical art is fine. I've found a dataset for Ars Electronica and
some infobox sets on Infochimps, and there's the Yorck paintings on
Wikimedia but does anyone know of anything else?

Thanks.

- Rob.

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