Bibliographer

Bibliographer is a reference and literature management application. It catalogues literature and supports the following features:

• Fast full text search of entire literature database
• Automatic look-up of metadata for documents that contain a valid DOI link
• Meta-data stored in a sqlite database, and changes occur seamlessly

Installation:

Requirements:

• Mono => 4.0
• gtk-sharp => 2.99
• sqlite
• automake1.9
• autoconf

Installation instructions:

From a GIT checkout:

$ ./bootstrap
$ ./configure
$ make

and, as root:

# make install

From a tar.gz release:

$ ./configure
$ make

and, as root:

# make install

Authors

• Sameer Morar smorar@gmail.com (present maintaner)
• Carl Hultquist chultquist@gmail.com

Future work

• Automatic file management:
  • Store all literature files in a directory tree. User customisable prefix, then in the following folders, based on type: $PREFIX$/Papers, $PREFIX$/Books, $PREFIX$/Thesis, $PREFIX$/Article etc...
  • Files to be renamed in the following format, based upon database entry: YEAR - FIRST AUTHOR - TITLE.ext
• Bibtex + other types of bibliographic database files to be exported by the application.
• Provide a tagging mechanism to group / classify certain topics together.
• Literature indexing:
  • Support for Abiword and OpenOffice documents
• Addition of user meta-data eg. notes, abstracts, reviews
• Drag and drop support for references:
  • Be able to drag from list view and drop a reference into a document being edited
• Word processor integration with Lyx, Abiword, OpenOffice, MS-Word (Win port)
• Online literature database searching eg. Medline, ScienceDirect etc...
• Win32 port

License

This project is licensed under the Gnu GPL version 2 license.