Hi David, On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 13:07, David Andel 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 >
All requirements you describe here leads to a real database to store all the info and query on it. > 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) > For use in publications using Latex/Bibtex a simple scripts can read from the database and write bibtex syntax. Kind Regards, Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
