ANN: RefDB-0.9.3-pre3 available

Hi all,

there's a new pre-release of the upcoming 0.9.3 along with an updated
Perlmod package available right here:

http://refdb.sourceforge/net/pre/refdb-0.9.3-pre3.tar.gz
http://refdb.sourceforge/net/pre/RefDB-perlmod-0.3_pre1.tar.gz

There's still no risx import, that's why it's just a pre-release. The
following issues have been improved or fixed compared to 0.9.2a:

- configure.in fixes for OSX

- contains risx.dtd

- new backend for risx export (use getref -t risx)

- refdbc running as CGI app no longer checks for username/password
  before reading CGI data

- fixed several bugs related to automatic generation of citation keys

- fixed problem with detection of duplicate journal entries

- fixed problem with web interface in Windoze browsers

- docbook and tei backends now support getref -s switch to request
  additional tags, use -s ALL to retrieve all suitable fields. Both
  now support notes and abstracts to pretty-print annotated
  bibliographies

ANN: RefDB-0.9.3-pre3 available

Markus Hoenicka mistyped:
 > http://refdb.sourceforge/net/pre/refdb-0.9.3-pre3.tar.gz
 > http://refdb.sourceforge/net/pre/RefDB-perlmod-0.3_pre1.tar.gz
 > 

Not hard to guess, but still worth a correction:

http://refdb.sourceforge.net/pre/refdb-0.9.3-pre3.tar.gz
http://refdb.sourceforge.net/pre/RefDB-perlmod-0.3_pre1.tar.gz

regards,
Markus

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plans, and citation annotations

On Wednesday, April 30, 2003, at 01:22  PM, Markus Hoenicka wrote:

> I'm not too optimistic that 0.9.3 will be out anytime soon. This is an
> overview of what I intend to get fixed for the next release:

And while we're at it, where does the citation annotation thing (page 
numbers, etc.) fit in your release schedule?  0.9.4?  Or might you slip 
it in for 0.9.3?

Bruce

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plans, and citation annotations

Hi Bruce,

I'd rather leave this for 0.9.4. Releases should be somehow
manageable, and 0.9.3-pre3 already has lots of changes. I want to get
the risx import done and then finalize the release. I've also spent a
week or so to set up a test box running FreeBSD, Debian Linux, NetBSD,
and Windows NT/Cygwin. I'll have to go through the installation
instructions for these platforms again to make sure everything works
as advertised. In addition, I plan to put together a Cygwin binary
starter kit using SQLite (which needs to be ported for this to
work). This will keep me sufficiently busy 

regards,
Markus

Bruce D'Arcus writes:
 > And while we're at it, where does the citation annotation thing (page 
 > numbers, etc.) fit in your release schedule?  0.9.4?  Or might you slip 
 > it in for 0.9.3?
 > 

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Re: plans, and citation annotations

On Saturday, May 3, 2003, at 02:47  PM, Markus Hoenicka wrote:

> I'd rather leave this for 0.9.4.

OK.

> In addition, I plan to put together a Cygwin binary
> starter kit using SQLite (which needs to be ported for this to
> work). This will keep me sufficiently busy 

Yes, indeed.  Good idea on the binary installer, BTW (even if I'm not 
on Windows!).

Bruce

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Convergence (MODS, BibX, etc.)

I sent this to the BibX list yesterday, which is an interesting post on 
a library-oriented site about MODS, Pyblio, BibX, etc., and on the 
convergence of library data systems and free -- end-user oriented -- 
software:

	http://usrlib.info/story/2003/4/16/73130/6689

I've been poking around on this subject, and it's true that there is a 
whole world out there tackling open source bibliographic storage that 
most of us are completely unaware of.  Koha (mentioned in the above 
article) is one, but here's another one more directly related to RefDB 
in particular:

	http://dspace.org/index.html

Called dspace, it is open source software (using PostgreSQL as its data 
storage engine) whose goal is to catalog the research products of 
scholars (in this case at MIT): everything from articles and books, to 
lectures notes and so forth.  It provides both an interface for data 
entry, and to search and retrieve these (generally) electronic records. 
  It uses Dublin Core and also -- it seems -- METS (both of which have 
clear connections to MODS) to store metadata.

This has me thinking that those of us interested in the implications of 
XML and such to fill the needs traditionally filled by Endnote and 
BibTeX need to get really serious about understanding and interacting 
with this larger universe.

- Why are the Pybliographer people determined to create a completely 

Problems exporting RISX

Problems exporting RISX

Hi Tom,

my fault, as usual. Please update your CVS version, I've just checked
in a fix. Let me know if anything else goes wrong.

regards,
Markus

Couwberghs Tom writes:
 > Hi all,
 >  
 > I'm running into some problems regarding the RisX export. When I try to
 > export a reference of the type 'conference proceeding (TY -  CONF), the
 > filter doesn't seem to export the publication section. Could somebody
 > figure this out?
 >  
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RISX export trouble

RISX export trouble

Hi Tom,

I noticed this problem yesterday but I was too tired to fix it :-o
I've checked in a fixed version a couple of minutes ago.

regards,
Markus

Couwberghs Tom writes:
 > Hi all,
 >  
 > I encountered another problem during the RISX export. When a publication
 > date is mapped to the pubdate tag, this isn't done correctly according
 > to the RIS-format. This happens with PY and Y2 -fields.
 >  
 > The problem: PY  - 1995///Spring is mapped to
 > <pubdate>
 >     <date>
 >             <year>1995</year>
 >     </date>
 >     <otherinfo>///Spring</otherinfo>
 > </pubdate>
 >  
 > This should be of course without the slashes, as you all know these
 > slashes are just delimiters for the date fields year/month/day/otherinfo
 >  
 > Could you fix this?
 >  
 > Thanks in advance,
 >  
 > Tom Couwberghs
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