Reference management (was: Re: scientific publishing process (was Re: Cost and access))

On Oct 8, 2014 10:15 AM, "Gray, Alasdair" <A.J.G.Gray@hw.ac.uk> wrote:

> Or is that because they want to import it into their own reference
management system, e.g. Mendeley, which does not support the HTML version?

1. It is quite easy to embedded metadata in HTML pages in forms designed
for accurate importing into reference managers (Hellman 2009). Mendeley has
been known to have problems with imports in cases where a proxy server is
involved.

COinS does have the slight problem of being kind of being based on top of
OpenURL, which is made of lose (Hellman 2010) , but is the current least
bad solution.

2. There is ongoing work to create a decent ontology for better embedding.
The BibEx work for schema.org is going in the right direction (Bibex 2014).

The Library of Congress BIBFRAME effort (LC 2014) is going in the right
direction iff the right direction is defined as straight off a cliff - see
eg Spero (2013)

2. There is a good comparison of Docear, Mendeley,and Zotero available in
Beel (2014), which is remarkably balanced given that he is the PI for
Docear. He includes a link to an earlier post mocking several completely
unbalanced comparison charts prepared by different vendors (he finishes by
making a similar chart showing Docear is the only possible choice. Table
snark FTW.)

My personal favorite tool is Bibdesk (2014), which is Mac and bibtex
specific, but justifies this by using many Mac specific capabilities. There
is some support for integration into word  (Don't mention the Word. I
mentioned it once but I think I got away with it.)

3. All of these tools could benefit from even simple subsumption reasoning
(although vocabularies like the LCSH have errors that lead to amusing and
frustrating results - everything about doorbells is also about mammals,
eschatology, the soul, and psychotherapy (Spero 2008).

It is important to recognize the difference between a knowledge
organization system, for describing intentional concepts, and knowledge
representation systems, for describing a view of reality. Leonard Cohen via
Elaine Svenonius authorizes laughing at people who confuse the two.

http://ibiblio.org/ses/anyqs.jpg

3. Extended rants on misunderstandings of plausible Ontologies and
ontologies of the Bibliographic Universe omitted (cough SKOS cough).

Simon

References

Beel, Jorean (2014) . Comprehensive Comparison of Reference Managers :
Mendeley vs. Zotero vs. Docear. Available at
http://www.docear.org/2014/01/15/comprehensive-comparison-of-reference-managers-mendeley-vs-zotero-vs-docear/

Bibdesk (2014). Bibdesk wiki: Main Page. Available at
http://sourceforge.net/p/bibdesk/wiki/Main_Page/

BibEx (2014). Schema Bib Extend Community Group Wiki: Main Page.  Available
at http://www.w3.org/community/schemabibex/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

Hellman, Eric (2009). OpenURL COinS : A convention to embed bibliographic
metadata in HTML. Available at http://ocoins.info

Hellman, Eric (2010). It's cool to hate on OpenURL (was Re: Twitter
Annotations). Available at
https://listserv.nd.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CODE4LIB;axd%2FoQ;201004291208400400

https://www.mail-archive.com/code4lib@listserv.nd.edu/msg07857.html

LC (2014). BIBFRAME : Bibliographic Framework Initiative. Available at
http://www.loc.gov/bibframe/

Spero, Simon (2008). LCSH is to Thesaurus as Doorbell is to Mammal:
visualizing structural problems in the Library of Congress subject
headings. In Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Dublin
Core and Metadata Applications. DCMI. Available at:
http://iBiblio.org/ses/poster.pdf
Spero, Simon (2013). Prolegomena to any future metadata. Available at
http://www.ibiblio.org/fred2.0/wordpress/?p=269