Building up a collaborative article database out of Open Source components

Members of a Swiss, Austrian and German network of health care libraries planned to build a collaborative article reference database. Since different libraries were cataloging articles on their own, and many national health care journals can not be found in other repositories (free or commercial) th...

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Main Authors: Stefan Kandera, Markus Fischer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Code4Lib 2010-12-01
Series:Code4Lib Journal
Online Access:http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/4438
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spelling doaj-4ad60963916a481ab7beda8c4989bfdf2020-11-25T02:35:03ZengCode4LibCode4Lib Journal1940-57582010-12-0112Building up a collaborative article database out of Open Source componentsStefan KanderaMarkus FischerMembers of a Swiss, Austrian and German network of health care libraries planned to build a collaborative article reference database. Since different libraries were cataloging articles on their own, and many national health care journals can not be found in other repositories (free or commercial) the goal was to merge existing collections and to enable participants to catalog articles on their own. As of November, 2010, the database http://bibnet.org contains 45,000 article references from 17 libraries. In this paper we will discuss how the software concept evolved and the problems we encountered during this process. http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/4438
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description Members of a Swiss, Austrian and German network of health care libraries planned to build a collaborative article reference database. Since different libraries were cataloging articles on their own, and many national health care journals can not be found in other repositories (free or commercial) the goal was to merge existing collections and to enable participants to catalog articles on their own. As of November, 2010, the database http://bibnet.org contains 45,000 article references from 17 libraries. In this paper we will discuss how the software concept evolved and the problems we encountered during this process.
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