Re: [Ebib-users] feature request: searching online databases

[Robbie M. <ro...@ac...>]

Hi all

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Subject:      Re: [Ebib-users] feature request: searching online databases
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From:         Joost Kremers <joo...@fa...>
Date:         Fri, 31 Aug 2012 13:56:47 +0200
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> Hi again, :-)
>
> On Fri, Aug 31 2012, Mandar Mitra <man...@gm...> wrote:
>
>> Certain bibliography managers e.g. jabref (which I
>> couldn't get to work) promise a capability to search
>> through online sources e.g. ACM Digital Library,
>> Citeseer, Google Scholar, etc. for bibliographic
>> information.
>>
>> Is there any plan to implement a similar feature in
>> ebib? If not, do you think it would be worth trying?
>
> Yes, I've been discussing this with someone else on
> the list... There are no real plans to add such
> functionality, mainly because I don't have much time
> to work on Ebib ATM. But it would definitely be a
> good thing to have, so you do come up with some code,
> I'd probably add it to Ebib.

Actually I was involved in those recent discussions.

Two approaches were traversed:

 * interoperability with Zotero -- through their public
   APIs (what ever they are)

 * more-or-less what was indicated by Mandar --
   moreover, pybliographer (sourceforge.net), now
   inactive, had code to do this:

   http://pybliographer.org

  "search external databases like PubMed, Web of
   Science, Citeseer, and more"

   I never used pybliographer, although I registered
   for their mailing list five years ago.

   This kind of code will no doubt require ongoing
   maintenance because the URLs/APIs/data
   interfaces are liable to drift over time.

[snip]

>> ps: Sorry for back-to-back messages from a new
>>     user. I thought it best not to mix topics.

Good move.

cheers, Robbie
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