personal literature collection
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
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)
There are also web based systems being built tailoring to these needs:
- Connotea - http://www.connotea.org/
- CiteULike - http://www.citeulike.org/
How do you guys manage your literature collections?
I don't know of any advanced system available to date providing all the
functionality outlined above, and it seems to me that the Connotea and
CiteULike projects show that there indeed is no such system around. Or
did I miss something?
Debian, however, contains tools which I think could be glued together to
provide a big deal of that functionality. The question is which tools to
use and how to proceed best...
Any ideas?
Cheers,
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David Andel, MD-PhD Candidate, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Institute of Information Technology, University of Zurich
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