Import bibliographic metadata

[trenkert]

some of the documents I organize in opensemanticsearch have bibliographic metadata associated with them. Could you include a plugin or function for searching and importing metadata? (perhaps similar to how zotero does it?)

This metadata could be useful for stuff like

• renaming files in a meaningful way
• importing tags, timelines
• building a collective bibtex database.

[Mandalka]

The Open Semantic ETL architecture can do such things by data enrichment so most things are implementable with few lines of Python, if metadata is in an open standard (and/or good Python libraries to read the data) if there is an ID in metadata that is mappable to the ID/URL/filename of document.

For example renaming can be done yet on file name / URI / URL by the default plugin for mapping file names / directories to other paths or web server URLs.

Which format is the meta data?

[trenkert]

Which format is the meta data?

Programs like Zotero, Mendeley or cb2bib fetch metadata for pdfs that appear to be (scientific) publications from google scholar and store them as bibtex, for instance. (if you want to see it in action, just drag and drop a couple of pdfs into Zotero).

OKFN are maintaining BibJson, an implementation of Bibtex as JSON: http://okfnlabs.org/bibjson/ This should make it possible to store and share bibtex metadata on a server and to render it in the UI as well as make it exportable (either raw or as different citation styles).