In doing research I often want to find papers or publications on a particular topic. Usually I try to cheat and find a bibliography that someone else has already created. I was thinking some kind of Wiki model for creating bibliographies could be useful. Basically take the standard idea of a wiki and add a few features relevant to bibliographies, like sorting publications by date, author etc. A rating system would be useful. So would a graphical map to show the network of references between papers. If people would contribute their bibliographies to such a system, it could save a lot of the pain of current methods of literature search, which basically involve random keyword search and then manually ’spidering’ the references that you find.