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- Subject: [chat] Looking for a web-based bibliography database/system
- From: Mary <mary-slug@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed Jan 29 16:35:02 2003
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Hi everyone,
I'm looking for a Free Software program that does some/much of the
following:
Essential:
- helps in constructing a web-based annotated and categorised
bibliography
By this I mean it helps construct webpages that track academic
papers, with all the usual bibliographic information (authors, title,
year, journal, page numbers...), and allows papers to be categorised.
Bonus points for:
- being implemented in Perl, Python or Java (just because my host
provides them).
- allowing summaries or notes (a surprising number of bibliographic
databases don't allow this, they're just fancy frontends to BiBTeX).
- tracking references in both directions (what papers cite X? What
papers does X cite?)
- categorising entries
- searching on all kinds of fields and combinations of fields
- letting you link to online copies of papers
Does anyone know of such a beast?
Now I realise that this would not be impossble to code myself, but I'm
not so excited about the prospect of coding it that I'd ignore existing
solutions.
-Mary