Dear List,
Well, here is an update on my progress with NETBIB, an auditory bib service
via the internet, to help you (and me) with your (our) references.
My (our?) goal is to help provide all of us with a highly accurate source of bib
info, that can quickly be incorporated into your paper, in any format.
Not too surprisingly, there is a lot of software out there already. The UNIX
community has been busy, covering our bases, yet again, filling in the gaps that
MS has chosen not to fill (yet they charged us, for their own personal greedy
money-grubing self-serving reasons).
Below is open source that does what we (I?) want, available for free. For those
of you that know how to use this stuff, here it is. For those of you
who do not, and do not have the time to learn it, my (our) project continues.
I will research or write an interface that makes it available to us all, for free.
But the basic engine has been written, and, as is typical, is free
for the asking. What we still need is a netscape (HTML) interface that makes
it easy to use, plus more of your data files, which can be sorted and stored by
subject, author, year, or what ever you want, etc. Namely an interface that will
search the database of papers, and return a file, preformatted in a format of your
choice (Latex, ascii, endnote, yes, and even a doc format, if such a thing exists,
in a stable and usable form).
I have received 15 bibtex databases, and 7 text databases. I would guess that the
text databases are conversions from endnote. Perhaps one is not. As it turns out,
the text data bases are not too useful, as there are no key words. Thus it
looks like I need to get the endnote source, and process it. I am not ready
to do that, so please do not send me any endnote files, or any ascii databases.
They are not yet useful to me. However I am still interested in bibtex databases,
that are 99.99999% free of errors. It is likely that if the database is of your
personal papers only, it is likely pretty free of errors.
More later. And thanks for your tremendous support.
This is all based on 1% of my time. So please be patient.
Jont
http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~jacobsd/bib/bp/index.html
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Title: bp, a Perl Bibliography Package
bp is a Perl library that is designed to:
This package is in development. It is in the BETA stage, which means that I may still change the interface, but major changes are unlikely. Parts of the package are still missing (namely documentation, automatic format recognition, and a good set of utilities), but everything needed for a working system exists.
Source code:bp is freely available for use without charge, and may be redistributed freely.
- Source (version 0.2.97 -- pre 0.3.0) as of 19 December 1996: 243k gzipped tar file
- Old sources
- Source (version 0.2.3) as of 26 March 1996: 227k gzipped tar file
- Format updates for 0.2.97
- Medline, 7 Oct 97 (Jr names, new Entrez HTML): 8k bp module
Examples:
Documentation:
| Format | read | write | notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| bibtex | x | x | The BibTeX format |
| refer | x | x | The Refer / BibIX format |
| endnote | x | x | EndNote's refer-like format |
| tib | x | x | Like refer using TeX |
| procite | x | x | Comma-delimited import format |
| rfc1807 | x | x | RFC 1807 / 1357. Not well tested. |
| text | x | x | Raw lines or paragraphs |
| cstra | x | CS Tech Report format | |
| inspec | x | The "Doc Type" version. | |
| medline | x | MEDLARS as output by Entrez | |
| melvyl | x | Not quite sure which version. | |
| ieee | x | The old IEEE catalog | |
| powells | x | An old Powell's format | |
| output | x | Styles generic, booklist, aacf. | |
| html | x | Synonym for output format with HTML charset |
| Charset | notes |
|---|---|
| 8859-1 | ISO 8859-1 8bit characters |
| apple | Apple's 8bit mapping |
| html | HTML -- Hypertext Markup Language |
| tex | TeX |
| troff | troff |
| dead | Dead-key. \'a for á, \/o for ø, \-D for Ð |
| none | strips accents -- 7bit clean |
BibDB by Eyal Doron allows importing refer and tib data into it's BibTeX centered database. It is a DOS/Windows program only however, and doesn't allow arbitrary programming.
The Integrated Chameleon Architecture is a toolset for data translation, that claims to come with a refer <--> bibtex translator among other things. I do not know what the current status is.
- 1 Jan 97
- String evals in Perl 5.003 are still not cached, so are deathly slow. This meant some changed for standard implode. For all formats, define @reginfo at beginning, then register at end (mainly so the registration info will be placed at the head of the file, but the actual registration will happen after all other variables (notably %options) are defined). Charsets now use ®_charset().
- 26 Dec 96
- Help for formats is set up ("-bibhelp bibtex" gives some information on the BibTeX format and also on module options). There is a standard options parser for modules, and all modules have been changed to use it.
- 23 Dec 96
- Lots of misc work throughout. RFC1807 has been completely rewritten and follows the specification almost exactly.
- 21 Dec 96
- Most of the 01XX Unicode characters are supported by the TeX charset. BibTeX does OPTfield squeezing.
- 19 Dec 96
- Put a pre-0.3.0 release on the web page. BibTeX parsing is the biggest change -- strings are much more robust, crossrefs are filled out. There is a CACM output style.
- 17 Dec 96
- Getting ready for another release in a couple weeks. Endnote has been put into a separate module from refer because of the charset issues. A BIDS module should be in place. bibconv has a usage display! The BibTeX module now handles crossref entries.
- 15 Mar 96
- More changes to a lot of code. The old HTML code is gone, replaced with a generic output module, with style programs generated from a more generic description file. Support for HTML headers and trailers exists, so all the functionality of the old HTML module (what little there was) is there. Now reads comma-delimited Procite files, write RSN. Automatic EndNote record detection in the refer module. New bibconv program that's a little more user-friendly than tconv.
- 21 Jan 96
- Minor cleanup to most packages. Finished basic EndNote support. Handle BibTeX name conversion with braces. Fixed typo in the convert code. Tried writing a procite converter, but the every database seems different.
- 17 Jan 96
- Changed Medline to read Entrez MEDLARS format. Both the saved files, and with the html option, search results.
- Refer now has an endnote option that supports some of the differences to refer that EndNote uses.
- Added a CSTRA format that reads the format defined by CSTRA.
- 15 Jan 96
- Added INSPEC format.
- 2 Dec 95
- Just released 0.2.0 which uses an all new character set methodology.
- 1 Dec 95
- Set up the newest form interface converter.
- 28 Nov 95
- Began work on format module documentation.
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