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P2P Bibliographies with Bibster
Noksagt writes "P2P isn't just for government documents anymore! Bibster assists researchers in managing, searching, and sharing bibliographic data in a peer-to-peer network. This project shows great promise to researchers who currently search for citations through centralized servers (Google, Scirus, CiteSeer, ISI. and many others). By making it decentralized, researchers can share bibliographic data with no subscription costs and avoid typing this data in by hand. It can import and export citations using bibtex. The project is GPLed and free clients for windows and Linux are available. There's also a Sourceforge page for Bibster, so you can checkout from the CVS if the Bibster site is slow."
Unfortunately not. Nor does it seem to use MODS XML for record storage (which, incidentally, will be used by OpenOffive.org's bibliographic and the bibliophile project, which hopes to do cross searching across the open source literature databases.
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SRW/U hopes to supplant Z39.50. Not only does it use MODS, but it still uses ZeeRex and CQL
For more nerdy e-refererence stuff, check out darcusblog
citeseer has full text available for for most of its articles, and its a free service, so maybe copyright isn't such a big deal for some reason. Maybe it's because most papers in computer science are available from the author's website.
-jim
"I still don't understand why, but wikis work. Just look at wikipedia.."
Wow... Well, lets put aside the subtle notion that people are benevolent and never do wrong to a wiki, and realize the Wikipedia uses strict moderation and privledges, letting a huge moderation team track various pages along with the ability to ban users or lock pages from being edited(George W. Bush's page cannot be edited, for example).
Wikis work because they have a chain of command.
What you mean like http://www.jxta.org/...