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

[Mandar M. <man...@gm...>]

> 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.

So I guess the upshot of your earlier discussion was that it would be
preferable to leverage Zotero? If their API remains stable, then ebib
would not have to worry about the various individual interfaces.

mandar.