Hi All, Why not try an existing, online tool.? There are severals, most of them support export to various formats, e.g. BibTeX, RIS, EndNote, etc.. Some of them have a Word plug-in, too.
http://www.connotea.org/ Free online reference management tool for scientists Nature Publishing Group http://www.citeulike.org/ Free online reference management tool for scientists Oversity Ldt. http://www.bibsonomy.org/ Free online reference management tool for scientists University of Kassel http://www.zotero.org/ Free online reference management tool for scientists WordPress http://www.2collab.com/ Free online group collaboration tool for scientists Elsevier B.V. Otherwaise, for Desktop solutions see a comparision: Reference Management Software Comparison: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_reference_management_software http://mahbub.wordpress.com/2007/03/04/comparison-of-free-bibliographic-managers/ Dietrich -- Mr. Dietrich Rordorf MDPI Center Matthaeusstrasse 11 CH-4057 Basel Switzerland E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype: d.rordorf Tel. +41 61 683 77 34 (office) Tel. +41 76 561 41 83 (mobile) Fax +41 61 302 89 18 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: > Re: [NTG-context] Bibliographic Databases > From: > Robin Kirkham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: > Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:13:28 +1000 > To: > [email protected] > > To: > [email protected] > > > On 20 April 2008, "George N. White III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Robin Kirkham >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> I want to set up a shared bibliographic reference database for my >>> research group, [...] >> >> I can tell you a few things that don't work! In our lab we have both >> TeX and Word users. Many of them had been using a DOS package >> called papyrus, using a special markup that could be translated >> to tex (.bbl) files. Nothing we found was really satisfactory, so >> we bought EndNote, which could import from papyrus via "refer" >> format and can export to "almost bibtex". One problem is that >> EndNote uses unicode, so we end up with รจ, etc. that must >> be translated for some user's versions of bibtex. The database >> now has a nearly infinite variety of different quote marks: >> `a`, 'a', ``a'', "a", etc. depending on how the entry was made >> (many are pasted from online or pdf sources). >> >> EndNote is really designed for individual users, although sold >> in bulk. If 2 people open the same database on a shared >> drive they end up with a corrupt database. >> >> In my view, a bibliographic database needs to store each >> reference in the "source" or original format, whether bibtex, >> refer, or one of the newer forms, and provide translators >> and version tracking, so each file can have forks for different >> uses (e.g., ascii vs unicode char. sets) and edits can be >> preserved for the next user. In practice, people just dump >> selected refs to a bib file, make the .bbl file, and fix problems >> there, so fixes rarely make it back to the master database. >> If they did, we would still have accents and quote marks >> being switched back and forth depending on who last used >> the entry. > > > Thanks George. EndNote is I believe the corporately-approved solution > here, and similar disasters occur when people try and share its data > files. For this reason I don't call these sorts of personal-level > programs "databases" (any more than I'll call a .bib file a database). > > The TeX folk don't fare much better. Multiple personal .bib files are > common, often with duplicate references but different citation keys, > leading to rather variable results depending on who run LaTeX/ConTeXt > on the file. Inconsistency in data entry is also a problem, although > for us, accents and quotes don't seem to too big a problem. > (`Authorless', i.e., corporate author documents, like data sheets, > seems to be more of an issue). > > For this reason I'm looking for a proper SQL database solution like > refdb or refbase (or maybe wikindx, thanks Andreas) with a web > front-end that will hopefully enforce somewhat more consistent data > entry, and maybe even auto-generate citation keys. Taco, your remarks > regarding interchange formats are valuable (both refdb and refbase > support MODS XML output). > > Robin > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the > Wiki! > > maillist : [email protected] / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : [email protected] / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
