quaneko[1] is a good search program [1] http://quaneko.sourceforge.net/
On 8/21/05, David Andel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all > > I am new to the debian-science mailing list and don't know if my issue > has been discussed here before. Sorry if it was. > > For quite some time I am thinking about a versatile system of managing > my personal literature collection. > > Such a system would have to provide at least the following features: > - indexing and searching across all items, like authors, title, article > type, journal, keywords, date of publication, citations, ISSN, ISBN, > etc. - and also personally defined items > - full text search (if full text available) > - personal notes management, preferentially with direct annotation > functionality of text passages > - definition & management of excerpts > - support of a plethora of different file formats, like pdf, ps, dvi, > html, plain text, office software formats etc. > - useful for local electronic, online and also paper documents > - management and preferentially graphical display of interrelationships > across documents, like citations, keyword matches, full text > classification (like cluster analysis) - with import and use of journal > impact factors > - ideally such a system would include collaborative functionality > > There are several Debian packages I think are or could be useful: > - bibtex / pybliographer for reference management > - swish-e / swish++ for full text search > - tagcoll / SQL databases for managing defined values > - dbacl for automatic Bayesian text classification > - alexandria / bookcase / tellico for managing book (and other paper > document) collections > - also some wikis could be useful (at least for some of the functionality) > > There are also web based systems being built tailoring to these needs: > - Connotea - http://www.connotea.org/ > - CiteULike - http://www.citeulike.org/ > > How do you guys manage your literature collections? > > I don't know of any advanced system available to date providing all the > functionality outlined above, and it seems to me that the Connotea and > CiteULike projects show that there indeed is no such system around. Or > did I miss something? > > Debian, however, contains tools which I think could be glued together to > provide a big deal of that functionality. The question is which tools to > use and how to proceed best... > > Any ideas? > > Cheers, > > -- > David Andel, MD-PhD Candidate, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory > Institute of Information Technology, University of Zurich > Andreasstrasse 15, 8050 Zurich, Switzerland > Phone: +41-1-635 45 75, Fax: +41-1-635 68 09, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Office: AND 2.20, Homepage: http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/~andel > -- > "All pseudoscience is homeopathic: the less content it has, the more > popular it is." - Phil Plait, The Bad Astronomer > "Real knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance." - Confucius > "Democracy is not a spectator sport." - Marian Wright Edelman > -- > Spamtraps: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- LI Daobing
