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Jim Pitman's Home Page Lunch with Jim Pitman (Feb 15, 2005)
I had an early lunch today with Jim Pitman, a statistics professor interested in bibliographic metadata. We talked about his BibServer:
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BibServer is a program which creates a web of interlinked displays of bibliographic data maintained in BibTeX The displays link whenever possible to full text in open archives such as arXiv PubMed in electronic journals, and on author's homepages.
I've been intrigued by his work on a number of fronts:
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BibTeX remains the reigning bibliographic standard among mathematicians and physicists (it would seem). How to factor the pre-eminence of BibTeX into my work with MODS and other formats for BibliographicCitation(s)?
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His extensive use of disciplinary-specific databases. How will I keep up with the various disciplinary databases out there that are important?
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Jim pointed out
BibTeX-2-RDF translator to me. It's a natural to want to convert BibTeX to RdfSpec to feed more information into a/the SemanticWeb. I'm still figuring out RDF in some sense, specifically how to hook it all up to the large pool of XML data out there and in our systems.
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I'm curious about how BibServer is actually being used. What motivates folks to contribute? What draws people to it? Why is Jim working on it?
