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Markus Hoenicka | 5 Feb 2008 18:07
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ANN: refdb-1.0.0-pre1 available for testing

Hi,

I've finished and uploaded a new prerelease of RefDB:

http://refdb.sourceforge.net/pre/refdb-latest.tar.gz

The full list of changes is appended below. I'd like to highlight
three noteworthy changes in this release:

1) RefDB now supports (with minor glitches) popular bibliography
   styles like AMA, APA, Chicago, Harvard, MLA, and Turabian

2) RefDB now supports bibliographies for RTF documents. The procedure
   is explained in the manual shipped with the prerelease, but in
   brief it works as follows: refdbnd creates a Makefile and a
   skeleton RTF document. Insert citations like [[Miller1999-X]] or
   [[Miller1999-X][Doe2001-X]] as plain text using your word
   processor, and then run "make". For an input file "foo.rtf" you'll
   get an output file "foo.refdb.rtf" which contains the bibliography
   and the formatted citations. I've tested this stuff with OpenOffice
   and AbiWord with success. I'd be glad to get feedback from other
   users as there are certainly some glitches.

3) RefDB now supports custom driver files for XML bibliographies. This
   is not as straightforward as you may think, but it is explained in
   the manual. The goal is to apply custom formatting to the parts of
   a XML document *not* managed by RefDB independent of other users,
   even independent of other documents.

There were no changes in the database schemas, so this release should
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Markus Hoenicka | 15 Feb 2008 18:14
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experimental RTF support

Hi,

I've added some information about the experimental RTF support as well
as some example files to the RefDB homepage:

http://refdb.sourceforge.net/rtf.html

regards,
Markus

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Peter Elias | 26 Feb 2008 09:33
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Is refdb suitable for this?

Hello,

I plan to create and maintain a database of publications and citations 
in a small scientific institution. The database should list publications 
written by institution members and also publications which contain 
references to these publications. I need the ability to retrieve and 
format the output like this:

publication [...] is cited in:
   [1] ...
   [2] ...
publication [...] is cited in:
   [3] ...
etc.

Is refdb a suitable tool for this task? After looking to refdb manual, I 
was not able to tell.

Thanks,
Peter

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Markus Hoenicka | 26 Feb 2008 20:56
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Is refdb suitable for this?

Hi,

it depends. If you manage the "is referenced by" relationships
manually in your document, you could whip up something that does the
trick. refdb-publist [1] gets fairly close to what you need. The trick
is to assemble a document from several small bibliographies instead of
using just one like in a journal article.

However, if you want the bibliographic database to *store* these "is
referenced by" relationships, RefDB is not (yet) equipped to handle
this. I've suggested an improved data model [2] that would be able to
store such relationships, but this is not yet implemented.

Feel free to get back with more detailed questions if you feel that
RefDB is useful for your task.

regards,
Markus

[1] http://refdb.sourceforge.net/doc.html#refdb-publist
[2] http://refdb.sourceforge.net/rbib.html

Peter Elias writes:
 > Hello,
 > 
 > I plan to create and maintain a database of publications and citations 
 > in a small scientific institution. The database should list publications 
 > written by institution members and also publications which contain 
 > references to these publications. I need the ability to retrieve and 
 > format the output like this:
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