The BibApp development team has announced the 1.0 release of BibApp, a campus research gateway and expert finder. It matches researchers on the campus or research centre with their publication data, and mines that data to see collaborations, create visualisations of areas of research, and find experts in research areas. With BibApp, it is supposedly easy to see what publications can be placed on the web for greater access and impact. BibApp can push those publications directly into an institutional repository.
The BibApp is the result of a collaboration between the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The Illinois Informatics Institute at the University of Illinois provided funding for the development of the 1.0 release. BibApp is released under a University of Illinois/NCSA open source licence.
BibApp seeks to allow researchers and research groups to promote research, find collaborators on campus, and make research more accessible. It also allows libraries to better understand research happening in local departments, facilitate conversations about author rights with researchers, and ease the population of the institutional repository. Finally, BibApp allows campus administrators to achieve a clearer picture of collaboration and scholarly publishing trends on campus.
BibApp uses open standards and protocols such as OpenURL and SWORD and automatically pulls in data from third party sources such as Google Books and the Sherpa/Romeo publisher policy database. It imports publication data in RIS, MEDLINE and Refworks XML bibliography formats and exports data in several citation formats (APA, Chicago, IEEE, MLA, more) via CiteProc. BibApp also provides a web services API for delivering data as XML, YML, JSON and RDF.
Next steps for the project include a 1.1 release that will include internationalisation and a richer authentication/authorisation system. The team is also in the process of expanding the development community around BibApp.
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