Dan Chudnov :: Library Geeks 007 - Bruce D'Arcus

Originally posted by Dan Chudnov on October 27, 2006.

The seemingly ubiquitous Bruce D'Arcus joined Ed, Ross, and me to discuss his many efforts to improve bibliographic management for scholars. Bruce is involved in and tracks so many different initiatives, it's hard to believe this isn't actually his day job. We were particularly happy that Bruce could share some of his time with us during the busy school semester.

Among the projects noted during discussion:

• Bruce's Citation Style Language, now used in Zotero
• The OpenOffice Bibliographic project which Bruce co-chairs
• Wikipedia on the OpenDocument Format
• "OpenOffice, OpenDocument, and Metadata", his talk from Access 2005
• The hCite microformat
• The Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS)
• Boundaries of dissent : protest and state power in the media age, Bruce's recent book

Dan Chudnov :: Library Geeks 005 - Zotero

Originally posted by Dan Chudnov on October 3, 2006.

Dan Cohen, Josh Greenberg, and Dan Stillman of the Center for History and New Media at GMU joined me to discuss their work on Zotero, their about-to-be-released Firefox 2 based citation manager-cum-bibliographic everything keeper. "Z-Day", as they call the upcoming public release day, is scheduled for this Thursday, October 5, 2006.

There's a lot to be excited about in Zotero, as I wrote recently. Listen in and learn all about it straight from the source through the local podcast feed, iTunes, or straight to the mp3 file.

Show notes:

• To use Zotero, you'll need Firefox 2.
• Zotero uses the Citation Style Language, or CSL, by Bruce D'Arcus.
• Zotero can recognize, parse, and collect bibliographic information found in COinS.
• Support is planned in Zotero for unAPI.