Posted by lwalley on November 13, 2009 at 12:16pm
From protologue citations, to taxon usage citations, to taxon description references, bibliographic data is an essential part of biodiversity data. Currently a number of Drupal applications are using Biblio module (see also Research and Academia Drupal Group) with differing levels of success. I would like to ask what are your experiences managing bibliographic data in Drupal? What use cases, requirements do you have? How could management of bibliographic data be improved?
Some use cases I am interested in include:
- Gathering and managing a bibliography for a particular group of taxa. User can search multiple external resources (e.g. ViTaL, PubMed, BHL CiteBank) for bibliographic items matching their search criteria (e.g. as done with Entrez) then choose which of the search results they want to import, maintaining a record of source metadata and global identifiers e.g. PubMed ids, DOI's etc so that further searches recognise when records have already been imported. Where duplicate records do appear users can manage these using merge tools, e.g. reconciliation groups for journal strings with optional preferred standard representation (for example TL2, BPH etc); finding DOIs to maintain unique identifier and help reduce duplication; ability to re-assign links to other content nodes to the preferred record when merging. Ideally any management tool would make use of BHL CiteBank to both reconcile locally stored citations and feed new citations back into it.
- Linking bibliographic citations with actual digital reference objects e.g. BHL, online access journals through CrossRef etc.
- User can cite bibliographic items as references within a content type such as page or story using WYSIWYG (e.g. as done with Footnotes or Biblioreference). This would require some metadata on the association between content type and reference e.g. suffix for citation e.g. Jones, 1999a and Jones, 1999b to follow standard citation methods.
- Associating bibliographic items as citations for the original publication of a taxon name, making use of and contributing to the Global Names Usage Bank.
- Associating bibliographic items with specimen/observation identifications i.e. identification based on field guide x.
Comments
Integrating Biblio with Zotero Groups / Mendeley Groups
There's a lot of calls to integrate zotero with the biblio module see http://drupal.org/project/issues/biblio?text=zotero&status=All
Potentials and limitations of Bibliography module
I'm an end-user with a bona fide Drupalista working with me to create a site highlighting controversial scientific areas in which articles will contain citations to the peer-reviewed literature - basically an online journal. My Drupalista has not worked with the Bibliography module before.
Ideally I would like it to function like EndNote or ReferenceManager, as an author drafts an article online, inputting PubMed id or DOI in the text, and upon save/preview, in text citations would be replaced with (Author, Year) and bibliography generated in a separate section. Neither of us can determine if the module is capable of this.
I would be grateful to see other implementations of Bibliography, to get a better sense of the potentials and limitations.
Clearly I'm not in a position to make a wish list - yet. One mundane application which would help me tremendously would be to determine if readers from my site purchased from the publisher (Elsevier, Wiley, etc) articles from which I've shown data graphics - so that I can argue that their granting me permission to show figures is an advantage for them.
Bibliography is an AWESOME awesome module ....
The Biblio modules handles
The Biblio modules handles this quite well. To make a reference, the writer uses syntax similar to this <bib>CITEKEY</bib> or <ibib>CITEKEY</ibib>. The former puts the reference in the footnotes. The latter puts the reference inline. CITEKEY is configurable. It defaults to the nid (node id). The inline reference places the full cite in place. There may be a way to override what is put in place, but I haven't looked into it.