Hi, To you and Stephan Gromer: thanks for the thoughts. On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 01:10:04PM -0500, elw@stderr.org wrote: > >> I've lightly used CiteULike to organize a personal bibliography. However, >> it only exists as a web service, which makes me nervous about the data >> (yes, even despite the pious FAQ). Perhaps I should clarify my fear. It's not that I distrust the author's motives. However, Richard Cameron could drown in his bathtub tomorrow and the site might go down along with my notes. Less fancifully, if the site began to take up more time or money than he is willing to give, it may vanish. Mainly: I can sleep better at night if the data is on my system. >> Any quick thoughts about whether Connotea is useful enough to package for >> Debian? > > useful, certainly. great for lab groups who want a "service" to manage > their citations and papers. > > I think this would be an interesting adjunct to projects like > koha/greenstone, jabref, and other citation managment / bibtex tools. > Packages might promote some more interop just by existing, to be honest. Hmm. You just mentioned two (three?) tools that I wasn't aware of. I should definitely do some more digging. The feature of CiteULike that I most crave, incidentally, is that it automagically pulls in citations from PubMed and the like. And that I can get bibtex out of it. I don't actually care for the "social networking" aspect of it. Maybe you know of tools that provide the automagic import capability? > What will you call the resulting packages? The code states that it is > gplv2, but then there's the whole block of text on the > www.connotea.org/code page instructing folks not to brand things as > connotea... Hmm. I hadn't actually gone looking at the site before posting yesterday. After a superficial glance, it looks more like they don't want you branding a SERVICE as Connotea. I would think that the package could still use that name, though. On the Connotea site it says: However, Connotea is a trademark of Nature Publishing Group, so if you use the code to create your own bookmarking service, we ask that you don't brand it as Connotea. Regards, -Steve
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