Re: [chat] Looking for a web-based bibliography database/system

[Ben Leslie <benno@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Mary wrote:

> 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?

Well there is http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/cs, which has the added
bonus of already having the data in there :)

Benno