How can we develop our incipient Long Civil Rights Movement bibliography collaboratively online?
The LCRM project team is experimenting with some ways to make the list more interactive. First, we hope to make each entry a link to a library record and to full text where available online. We are trying both WorldCat and OpenURL, and each has drawbacks: WorldCat has a limit of 250 entries in saved lists; OpenURL is dependent upon a fully functioning OpenURL resolver at the user’s home institution. (It just so happens that at UNC Chapel Hill, the OpenURL resolver seems to work better for articles than for books.)
Second, we are very interested in including notes in the bibliography on who nominated the entry and why. Recently we started a new LCRM group in Zotero). Zotero 2.0 (in beta at this time; download available at http://www.zotero.org/) allows some exciting group functionality. Continue reading ‘Collaborative LCRM Bibliography’