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Bibliographic references: state of the art, a possible solution

Bibliographic references: state of the art, a possible solution. Jordan Biserkov, Lyubomir Penev Pensoft Publishers. Facts of life. Different projects have different (usually limited) goals, scope, funding, expertise, etc.

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Bibliographic references: state of the art, a possible solution

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  1. Bibliographic references:state of the art,a possible solution Jordan Biserkov, LyubomirPenev Pensoft Publishers

  2. Facts of life • Different projects have different (usually limited) goals, scope, funding, expertise, etc. • Even the results of successful ones are usually too specific and incompatible with similar projects around the world • But that’s OK - trying to please everyone is the surest way to fail

  3. Online databases

  4. Bibliographic references • There are multiple online databases • They have different focus and scope • They store information not only in different formats, but with different levels of granularity • They have different user interfaces • They have different APIs • There are 30+ actively developed offline reference managers • There are ~20 file formats • There are ~ 600 citation styles

  5. 20 file formats

  6. Import file formats

  7. Export file formats

  8. Universal standard?

  9. How to be successful?

  10. What do people want? • People don’t want multiple competing databases • People don’t want to have to learn multiple interfaces • People want simplicity • People want ease of use • People want a single place to find references

  11. A possible solution ViBRANT Virtual Biodiversity Bibliography of Life RefBank + REFinder

  12. RefBank + REFinder workflow

  13. What will REFinder be? • REFinder will be a middle man between You and (eventually) all reference databases in the world • REFinder will be free • REFinder will be open-source • REFinder will be based on open standards (Citation Style Language CSL) • REFinder will be available as a website to end-users as a web service

  14. Thank you for your attention

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