Bibliosight – Interview: Nick Sheppard and Mike Taylor

Sep 4, 2009 by milly-shaw

Nick Sheppard and Mike Taylor from Leeds Metropolitan University, tell us about Bibliosight.

What is Bibliosight?Populating repositories is a chore. Bibliosight automates the process of getting high quality meta data into repositories.What problems/issues is Bibliosight tackling?Bibliosight frees academics from the donkey work of imputing meta data from the Web of Science citation database into a repository.It’s also notoriously difficult to populate repositories with full texts – we can’t use published versions because of copyright, so we’re using Bibliosight to send out automatic notifications to staff to get the full pre-published version of the text.How would you like other software developers and users to get involved in what you are doing?If other developers find what we’re doing useful we’re happy to share our work and communicate with them.Over the past couple of days we’ve talked to Santy Chumbe from JournalTOCs and we’re now looking at their API and using their development expertise.What developer communities have you been involved in and if none, why not?This is the first JISC conference we’ve attended. Other than that it’s just other developers at the university.What is the coolest or most exciting thing in educational software development?We’re excited by combining developments and the openness – the change in the paradigms with open content on the web. The law and copyright side of things isn’t keeping up with the technology. People are hanging on to frankly outdated business models.