My Online Bibliography
If you haven’t checked out my online bibliography, I’d recommend you do so as I presume you are interested in many of the same topics in which I am interested. You can find it by clicking on the tab labeled “wikindx” on my webpage. It’s not the most user-friendly application in the world but it meets my needs.
It’s searchable so you can always look for specific authors, topics, or other metadata or bibliographic data. Some of the records includes links to the original documents when they’re available online. When I use the tool and log in, I can not only create new records and edit existing ones but I can (and do) upload documents associated with bibliographic records. In other words, even though you can’t seem them and access them, most of the records have electronic copies of the item attached to them. So this not only functions as a bibliographic and note-taking tool (you can associate abstracts, quotes, and other notes with the records) but it also functions as a web-accessible library of research documents for me.
If there is a particular document that interests you but you don’t have access to it (no publicly-available URL, your local libraries don’t carry it, etc.), go ahead and drop me a line and if it’s legal and ethical I’ll send you a copy. I don’t want to encourage or be privy to copyright infringement or unethical behavior. :)
Aside from its value as a information resource about the topics in which I am interested, it’s also interesting to note that this is an interesting information resource about me and my activities and interests. It’s an interesting exercise to be placing some of my research notes on a publicly-accessible webpage where anyone can read them and attribute them to me (although I hope that everyone understands the nature of off-the-cuff remarks and notes to myself). You can also track my research interests and get a good idea of my research activities by analyzing some of the information available about the resources I’ve entered, particularly when I entered them and modified them. You can definitely tell that one of my current projects focuses on social networking and Facebook.
Those who wish to closely stalk me and be notified of changes to my bibliography can even subscribe to an RSS feed.
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Is there a way to export this data into zotero?
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I can export the data in a number of formats, including BibTex. I’ll eventually export the data into one or more of the shared bibliographic tools out there but I haven’t made the time to evaluate them, register an account, etc. One of the primary reasons is that the ability to store copies of the referenced document is a very important feature for me. Obviously I can’t do that with books (unless I’ve also purchased or acquired an electronic or scanned copy) but it’s invaluable to have the actual document as easily available as the bibliographic information.
I’ve heard really good things about Zotero but as far as I know it’s still single-user, right? Or am I getting it confused with another tool? I’m not currently using the multi-user functionality of Wikindx but I hope that it will come in handy one day in collaborative projects.
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Zotero has plans for a server, but yes it is only single-user right now. It is also my personal reference tool & I’d like to grab references. Looks like RefBase is the only webapp that zotero can currently grab references from automatically. I’ll try to figure out how to export a file from Winkindx (Zotero can import BibTex).
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If you need any help, please let me know! I’d be happy to export part or all of my bibliography if you or anyone else would like a copy.
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