Re: personal literature collection
Hi,
some time ago I was asking similar questions (and haven't really found the
perfect answer. So please allow me to re-post my thoughts to widen the
discussion a little bit. Some bits are a little specific to computational
chemistry. It's about Data and Knowledge Management Tools for Computational
Chemists.
I am looking for software, tools or general approaches to get hold of the
wealth of information that accumulates (mostly) electronically. In particular
emails, text/PDF/XML or similar documents, bookmarks to websites and
bibliographic references.
The main request would be to be able to "store" information as is without
having to enter it individually into a curated database. Filtering, indexing
or cataloging through a script would be ok, though. A powerful search should be
possible.
Some specific points:
- concerning bibliographic references, there is a wide variety of formats
like Pubmed, email-alerts, quotes on websites, ... sometimes with a comment
by the person who sent the reference, sometimes with an URL link, ...
I would like to be able to gather all information in a first pass without
having to parse the format by hand (eg where are authors, title, etc).
I have now started using CiteULike which is an amazing tool, but has the
disadvantage that it sits on a server that is not under my control. So
potentially it could disappear from one day to the other which would be bad.
- concerning bookmarks, it would be nice to also have elimination of duplicates
and of dead links
- taking it one step further, indexing the sites listed in the bookmarks might
also be an additional useful step
After some extensive search of the web, I could not come up with a fully
satisfactory solution. My current best bet would be to index text and other
files and email with a search engine like eg namazu. For bookmarks I'd ideally
like to store them in XBEL format, but there seem to be only a limited number
of tools, and none or very few that eliminate duplicates and dead links.
A useful bookmark tool might be bookmarker.
FramerD (a database) seems also an interesting possibility, but probably
requires quite some substantial coding.
In an ideal world, I'd also love to make use of some artificial intelligence
code (eg Self-organizing maps, textual data mining,..) or some machine-learning
tools, but my feeling is that those are not (yet) usable by non-experts.
My question is what do other people in the field use ? Are there any miracular
packages that would do all that I want ? Are there other/better approaches ?
Thanks very much in advance.
Marc Baaden
>>> David Andel said:
>> Hi all
>>
>> [..]
>> For quite some time I am thinking about a versatile system of managing
>> my personal literature collection.
>> [..]
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