https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=484418
Bug ID: 484418 Summary: Support for searching and adding book citations (e.g. from Google Books, WorldCat) Classification: Applications Product: KBibTeX Version: 0.10 Platform: Other OS: Linux Status: REPORTED Severity: wishlist Priority: NOR Component: Network/online search Assignee: fisc...@unix-ag.uni-kl.de Reporter: adam.m.fontenot+...@gmail.com Target Milestone: --- User story: I was looking for a lightweight citation and document manager, ideally a native Qt application. I don't need anything as complicated or heavy as Zotero or Evernote (my distribution doesn't package Zotero, anyway). I found KBibTeX and decided to see if it would meet my needs. Most of the time I'm trying to keep track of books (usually physical copies) that I've read, and might need to cite in various places - or even just remember where I might have read something. As it stands, KBT has a lot of features for importing citations from DOIs or other sources like JSTOR, but nothing (as far as I can tell) for automatically creating citations for books using e.g. an ISBN. I attempted to create citations by searching for ISBNs using the Google Scholar engine. In some cases the searches just failed because Scholar indexes articles, not books. In other cases, I was successful in that my searches did return results, but the resulting citations were missing obvious and important fields like "Publisher", "Location", and "ISBN", which are used in most citation styles for books. ------------- Possible solutions: * Google Books is probably the easiest source to add because there's an API for fetching data for ISBNs with no API key required. [1] Downloading a BiBTeX format citation for a given Google Books ID is also trivial. [2] I'm not sure about the relative completeness of various catalogues, so WorldCat might have some books that Google Books lacks. * WorldCat seems to be a common source of citation data for books. For example, Citer [3], an open source web based tool for creating citations on Wikipedia, uses WorldCat as a primary source of data for ISBNs. WorldCat has search results for ISBN values that KBT could display to the user [4], and the source HTML code of each page looks pretty easy to scrape. * Do what I'm doing now, which is attempt to find the exact version of the book on Google Books manually, download a BibTex citation, open the resulting file, and copy and paste the citation into KBT. Pretty painful. [1] https://www.googleapis.com/books/v1/volumes?q=isbn:1493905244 [2] https://books.google.com/books/download/Ecoregions.bibtex?id=fnG8BAAAQBAJ&output=bibtex [3] https://github.com/5j9/citer [4] https://search.worldcat.org/search?qt=wikipedia&q=isbn%3A0444885994 -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.