Archive for the ‘Bibliography Tools’ Category
The End of Ignorance
Posted on December, 1 at 5:54 pm | Filed Under Bibliography Tools, Collaboration, Software, Web Tools
While the title of this blog post is over-reaching, the book by the same name is likely not and a is certainly a very important read. I’m not sure if this is available outside of Canada, but The End of Ignorance is a not to be missed book for everyone interested in how we learn. [...]
New Bibutils Release
Posted on July, 28 at 3:32 pm | Filed Under Bibliography Tools
Chris Putnam has released v3.7 of his bibutils bibliographic conversion utilities. Up until now, the suite of tools did a nice job of converting from BibTeX, RIS, and Endnote to MODS. Now it adds the ability to go from MODS back to those formats. What this means is it provides a sort of universal translator, [...]
Related project: BiblioX
Posted on July, 27 at 4:05 am | Filed Under Bibliography Tools
BiblioX is “an attempt to create a XML-based system for formatting bibliographic citations and references using XSLT. The recommended Document Type for storing bibliographic information is MODS, the Metadata Object Description Schema. Development is centered around this format, although examples in other formats are included for comparison.” BiblioX offers (experimental) support for DocBook, MODS & [...]
Bibster: peer-to-peer bibliographic management and searches
Posted on July, 27 at 4:03 am | Filed Under Bibliography Tools
Bibster is a Java-based system which assists researchers in managing, searching, and sharing bibliographic metadata (e.g. from BibTeX files) in a peer-to-peer network. The advantage of the system is it provides the possibility to search on a distributed peer-to-peer network using Semantic Web technologies. It provides an easy way to share data with other researchers. [...]
WIKINDX 2.0 RC1
Posted on July, 17 at 6:28 am | Filed Under Bibliography Tools
Thanks to Mark Grimshaw for the pointer to the new home for WIKINDX on sourceforge. WIKINDX is a free web based (php / apache / mysql) bibliography management system. Very cool. They have just recently released 2.0 RC1. Looks very interesting, and since it is multi user … al sorts of different usage patterns are [...]
Bibtex Processor for the MoinMoin wiki
Posted on July, 13 at 5:37 am | Filed Under Bibliography Tools
Here is a processor for MoinMoin that renders bibtex files into the wiki – it appears to require bibtext2html. ProcessorMarket/bibtex.py
bib2xhtml 2.12
Posted on July, 13 at 5:32 am | Filed Under Bibliography Tools
Here is a new release of bib2xhtml 2.12: bib2xhtml 2.12 bib2xhtml is a program that converts BibTeX files into HTML (specifically, XHTML 1.0). The conversion is mostly done by specialized BibTeX style files, derived from a converted bibliography style template. This ensures that the original BibTeX styles are faithfully reproduced. Some post-processing is performed by [...]
Putting Visio diagrams into LyX/LaTeX
Posted on July, 9 at 8:17 am | Filed Under Bibliography Tools
Today I was again faced with a need to put a Visio diagram into a LaTeX document via LyX…
Biblioz 0.1 released – Zope Based Bibliography Management
Posted on June, 30 at 5:33 pm | Filed Under Bibliography Tools
Looks like there is a budding effort to build a bibliographic management tool on top of Zope. From the announcement: Biblioz – A first step towards a framework for organising bibliographic references. Provides – BookRef, JournalRef and BookChapterRef (arche)types, BibliozTool for rendering each of the Bibioz content types to specific citation formats, and AmazonTool for [...]
FreeFullText
Posted on June, 22 at 4:49 pm | Filed Under Bibliography Tools
It is amazing how much content that was only available to me as a student by browing the stacks and periodical archives in the university library is availabe for free over the internet. This changes research methods dramatically. I don't need to be located close to the campus anymore. For example here is FreeFullText, a [...]
BibBliki
Posted on June, 9 at 1:29 am | Filed Under Bibliography Tools
When I was working on several papers in my senior year of University, I developed a research tool that allowed for structured note taking which was cross referenced to my bibliography. Essentially, it was an automated version of the old 3 x 5 cards to track my bibliography and notes for a paper. It worked [...]
Serendipity Strikes! Weblogs and Personal Research
Posted on June, 9 at 1:10 am | Filed Under Bibliography Tools
I have had a passing interest in academic publishing, bibliography management and research tools for the humanities. Recently I have taken up my hobby again and wanted to get caught up in the field. So I have been tracking various feedster queries for the last month looking for good blogs about those topics. Today I [...]
Jabref 1.4
Posted on June, 8 at 9:58 pm | Filed Under Bibliography Tools
There is a new release of the JabRef bibliography management tool available. This version adds command line import and export functionality, advanced search, custom export filters, and several small additions and fixes.
A quest for the Holy Grail of technical documentation – Chris Karakas
Posted on June, 8 at 9:52 pm | Filed Under Bibliography Tools
Chris Karakas has put together a huge resource on publishing with Lyx and SGML. This is a tremendous resource. A method for single-source publishing using LyX and SGML is presented: LyX is used as a comfortable graphical SGML editor. Once the document is exported to SGML from LyX, it undergoes a series of transformations through [...]
wiki-wiki of the LyX community!
Posted on June, 5 at 2:12 am | Filed Under Bibliography Tools
Lyx has a wiki! Marvelous. Includes a section on About using BibTeX with LyX
Begin to use JabRef as BibTeX manager
Posted on May, 26 at 10:53 pm | Filed Under Bibliography Tools
Just ran across this reference to JabRef. Taking a quick look at it, it may be better than the Bibdb tool I had used before. Certainly looks a lot nicer and it seems to work with Lyx as well … interesting
Research and Authoring Tools for the Humanities
Posted on May, 26 at 7:31 pm | Filed Under Bibliography Tools
My mother is working on her Ph.D. and has asked me to work with her on setting up a research suite of tools for managing bibliographies, related research, paper and article authoring. It will also likely be used to manage and produce her Ph.D. dissertation if we are succesfull. It has been about 14 years [...]
The Sum of Ant
Posted on December, 4 at 5:55 am | Filed Under Bibliography Tools
Critical thinking about ant … and build control.
