Subject: [IFETS-DISCUSS] Creating a public bibliographic database.
From: Michael Verhaart (mverhaart@EIT.AC.NZ)
Date: Thu 22 May 2003 - 13:55:21 MEST
Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 23:55:21 +1200 From: Michael Verhaart <mverhaart@EIT.AC.NZ> Subject: [IFETS-DISCUSS] Creating a public bibliographic database.
Picking up on Kaylyn Anderson's "Rather than taking the authors' claim, I now review those researchers he or she cites".
When developing a knowledge capture system it soon became obvious that it was essential that each sniplet (an idea/concept or information representable by an overhead display) needed to have a cross reference to a bibliographic entry. This follows from the comment "Knowledge capture is having a base knowledge of a topic that can be discussed and even argued".
Initially the reference was embedded with the sniplet, but it was found that a good reference was used by many sniplets. Hence, a separate bibliographic entity was created.
Something that I have thought would be really useful, wouldn't it be neat if we could have a huge public bibliographic database, with a user selectable format string to specify preferred style (like APA, as done in software such as endnotes ), containing links to the original documents/papers. The real challenge would be to create a unique identifier so that other systems could refer to this huge database.
A search engine agent should then be able to search the documents in reverse to find all papers that use that paper as a reference. It would make citations in papers much easier to manage, and would allow authors such as Kaylyn to follow threads through related papers.
This does pose privacy and ownership issues.
Any thoughts?
Michael Verhaart
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