Hi all, I've been using Bibdesk with great pleasure. I work in computer science, where DBLP is kind of an authoritative source for bibliography.
Hence my request: is it possible to add DBLP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Bibliography_%26_Library_Project , http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/) support in Bibdesk? Ideally, it would be a search group, but could also be as a webgroup. I have no idea on how to implement such a feature, but the way this site works is simplistic, so it should be no pain at all to implement it and it would bring so much added value to all of us who are working with BibDesk in Computer Science. For those who are not familiar with DBLP, here is how it works. The result page of a query is very basically structured with HTML tables, one row per result. Now this result page is inconsistent depending on the type of search you did. With an author search (from http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/index.html or by only putting an author in http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/query.html) , you get a clickable number as the first element of the row. For example, searching Alan Turing with either method gives the page http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/t/Turing:Alan_M=.html Clicking on the number, for example 2, leads to the corresponding bibtex entry, for example http://dblp.uni-trier.de/rec/bibtex/journals/jsyml/Turing37 On the other hand, with a title search, things are a bit more tricky. For example, searching the previous publication (from http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/t-form.html or by putting a title in http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/query.html) , we obtain the following page http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/ley/dbbin/dblpquery.cgi?title=computability+and+lambda+definability Here, the number is not clickable, but we have the DBLP entry. The part between "[DBLP:" and "]" is what you have to add to http://dblp.uni-trier.de/rec/bibtex/ to find back the page with the bibtex entry (that is http://dblp.uni-trier.de/rec/bibtex/journals/jsyml/Turing37) . It might be that there are two bibtex entries in the bibtex page (the one starting by http://dblp.uni-trier.de/rec/bibtex/), when there are cross-references. So I would see two ways of integrating this in BibDesk. As a search group, it would be ideal, BibDesk would just serve as an interface to the query page, and present the results (parsing the bibtex entries as described). Or as a webgroup, it could just parse the result page. So my questions are: can this be accepted as a feature request? Is it something that can easily be implemented in BibDesk? Also, I can't find any documentation on webgroups. Is it something which is hard coded in the source code of BibDesk? Is there any easy way to add a webgroup? Thank you very much for having read this long email. A ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-develop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-develop
