I think that it would be more like Skim than BibDesk, or rather that BibDesk would be like iTunes to a Skim-on-iPad, synchronizing (perhaps a subset of) PDFs to the iPad, with reading (but maybe not writing) of metadata, but with full annotation and highlighting capabilities. The advantage here would be that the annotations (if they used the skimnotes framework) would then be accessible with Skim or BibDesk. Only the .skim notes would have to be copied back!
There's a PDF-annotation app on the iPhone already (Aji annotate) that allows for highlighting and other markup of PDFs, but it doesn't seem to sync back the annotations. Apparently, the built-in PDF display in the iPhone OS doesn't give access to the actual text, so the Aji Reader app sends that to the iPhone along with the PDFs themselves. http://www.ajidev.com/reader/support/metadata.html We did a Kindle DX trial at my institution; you could see the potential for something that had real power like the iPad, but it wasn't quite there. The killer app (as far as education goes) for the iPad would be a full PDF markup tool that syncs the annotations back to a bibliography manager. Then I could throw out my printer. -AHM On 2010-01-27, at 9:32 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: > > On Jan 27, 2010, at 9:09 PM, James Owen wrote: > >> >> On Thursday, January 28, 2010, at 04:48AM, "Adam R. Maxwell" >> <amaxw...@mac.com> wrote: >>> >>> My guess is that the iPad would basically require a new application; >>> BibDesk is heavily oriented and optimized for usage on a laptop or desktop >>> system. That would require significant effort, not to mention a developer >>> with an iPad :). >> >> Well, no, as Apple will have an iPad simulator for developers, just like >> they have for the iPhone. > > My understanding is that this isn't a good substitute for testing on the > hardware; certainly from the performance standpoint, but also for the user > experience (gestures and so forth). > >> BTW, if BibDesk had its own PDF viewer, would it be possible to make use of >> the hyperlinks for citations which are present in many PDFs? If one of >> these links is clicked, I think it opens a journal webpage, but could it be >> made to search for that hyperlink within the BibDesk library first, and then >> open a local file first? > > Not unless you made BibDesk the default handler for that URL type (e.g., > http), and you probably don't want to do that. Interesting idea, though; I > could see it working fairly well with DOIs. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation > Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business > Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts > Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com > _______________________________________________ > Bibdesk-users mailing list > Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
