[GOAL] Fwd: Automating metadata extraction

[Stevan Harnad]

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> From: Arthur Sale ahjs -- OZEMAIL.COM.AU
> Date: December 15, 2011 4:42:47 PM EST
> To: JISC-REPOSITORIES at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Automating metadata extraction
> 
> My attention was taken by the good deposit interface provided by Mendeley: the researcher simply deposits (drag and drop) a pdf file, and hidden behind the scenes an artificial intelligence program deduces the metadata (author, title, abstract, references, page numbers, journal, etc) and presents these in bulk to the researcher to confirm or edit. Much better than the clunky upload facilities in many institutional repositories.
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> What I’d like to ask this list: is: has anyone developed a similar interface for institutional repositories, especially EPrints and DSpace? If so, what experience have you had with it?
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> Neil Jacobs pointed me to the discussion thread http://gipp.com/jabref-automatic-metadata-extraction-from-pdf-files-like-mendeley-2, which I am now exploring and leads to Jabref, but there may be other and better tools available which are already integrated with a repository deposit interface.  Making deposit trivial is clearly a win-win situation for all of us in achieving open access.
>  
> Arthur Sale
> University of Tasmania, Australia.

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