From Collaboration to Curation: Building NASA Astrobiology’s Living Bibliography in SciX

With the launch of Science Explorer (SciX) and its growing focus on interdisciplinary science, we’ve had the opportunity to collaborate with the NASA Astrobiology Program to rethink how their publications are tracked, curated, and shared.

What began as an effort to streamline internal tracking has evolved into something much more impactful: a living, publicly accessible NASA Astrobiology bibliography that now helps power how the program shares its research with the world.

Building the Astrobiology Library

At its core, this project is driven by a simple goal: to make astrobiology research more findable, organized, and usable. Through SciX, we’ve built a library that aggregates publications from multiple sources, normalizes metadata, and ensures consistency across records.

One of the most rewarding outcomes of this collaboration is that the SciX library is no longer just an internal tool. It now serves as the publications bibliography featured on the NASA Astrobiology website, providing a reliable, continuously updated resource for researchers, collaborators, and the public.

The collaboration came together pretty organically. We connected with the NASA Astrobiology team to discover more literature to add to our growing collections. We compared notes on publication tracking workflows, and quickly found a path forward that built on what they were already doing – just with a bit more automation and structure layered in.

Full blog posting at Science Explorer

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