Hi Douglas, On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 20:29, Douglas Stebila <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there a standard, simple way to write and install methods for > BibDesk to import citations from Safari/Firefox? > > Here's the scenario I'm thinking of. Users are browsing the web in > Safari or Firefox and they come across a paper on a major site (arXiv, > Springer, IEEE, etc.) for which they'd like to import the citation > into BibDesk. It would be great if they could access an AppleScript > in Safari/Firefox, or switch to BibDesk and click a single button, and > have BibDesk parse the website, pull out the right bibliographic data, > and create a new citation.
There also are a couple of web services that do the parsing (when you click on a bookmarklet when browsing such a page) and send you back a BibTeX database entry, which you can either download or copy-paste into your BibDesk database with alt-command-L. I use CiteULike (http://www.citeulike.org/) and there also exists Connotea (http://www.connotea.org/). Admittedly this requires more than one click, but I have been rather happy with this scheme. An added benefit is that you automatically get a backup of your BibTeX database "in the cloud" (and of course they can import your existing BibTeX file). But, it clearly makes sense to add this functionality to BibDesk somehow, so this does not invalidate your suggestion in any way. Andrei -- Andrei Sobolevski Associate Professor Physics Faculty, M.V. Lomonossov Moscow State University 1 Leninskie Gory, bld. 2 119992 Moscow, Russia http://www.mccme.ru/~ansobol/indexeng.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
