On 02/18/09 09:29, "Douglas Stebila" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is there a standard, simple way to write and install methods for > BibDesk to import citations from Safari/Firefox? The short answer is no. A few sites are supported in the Web group that Christiaan mentioned, but there's no way for users to write plugins that tie into that group. > 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. If you're using Firefox, you might be interested in this: http://www.mackerron.com/. It uses Zotero's scrapers to push references to BibDesk. > I've actually written such an extensible framework entirely in > AppleScript that has importer scripts for websites that I use (arXiv, > IEEE, ACM, Springer), so if you want to see what I mean a temporary > version is available for download at > http://www.douglas.stebila.ca/files/code/bibdesk/Importers-0.9.2.zip > I'd be happy to contribute to developing part of this if people think > it should be added to BibDesk, but I'm not a very good Objective-C > coder. I think you have some good ideas in your framework; thanks for posting that! -- Adam ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
