In order to track research papers and other scholarly works for our upcoming games bibliography, we've been talking about using a social bookmarking site for citations, but it doesn't appear to be social enough. There's no simple commenting functionality to allow collaborators to comment on the value of the work.
So I imagine we're looking at some locally hosted solutions, unless someone finds some other social bookmarking sites for citations. There are two existing solutions that we could adopt fairly quickly: Document Database and Aigaion.
Unfortunately, they both suffer from a rather unfriendly presentation which does not appear to promote discussion and collaboration on the development of a bibliography. I imagine we're going to end up rolling our own if we want something good. (And we'd have to do that anyway if we wanted to roll it into our site.)
The nice thing is that all of the sites mentioned above can export to BibTEX, the LaTEX standard for marking up bibliographic data. So if we use one of the above systems to start with, we should be able to at least export the references to a custom solution we create (if not the notes) by creating a site that parses BibTEX data (which shouldn't be too difficult to do, considering how simple the format is). We could get started gathering the research this way rather quickly, but a truly social site would take time to develop.
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