Re: [Refdb-users] My conclusions regarding RefDB

[Bruce D'A. <bd...@fa...>]

On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 23:06:22 +0100, mar...@mh... said:
>  > I didn't try RIS-mode, I tried the WWW interface and wrote a
>  > bibtex entry, as bibtex is what I know. I would have liked to see
>  > something like the entry forms for pybliographic, with different
>  > fields according to the type of publication, and configurable for
>  > the needs of the bibtex style I use.
>  > 
> 
> I understand. The web interface is a proof of concept, and I was
> hoping that someone more capable than me in terms of CGI or PHP
> programming would pick up the idea. Well, some did, but there are no
> public versions available to date.

As someone also taking part in helping with bibx, I can say that there is
really a lot of room for collaborative work on these kinds of things. 
Once the data model is nailed down, then it seems to me there ought to be
collaboration on designing an easy input form that'd be appropriate for a
web interface, as well as graphical clients that might link to RefDB (I
myself am interested in BibDesk on Mac OS X).

If you have any skills, I'd urge you to contribute to improving this
stuff rather than give up. As far as I'm concerned there isn't much
alternative, and there's a lot of promise here (not only with RefDB, but
especially if we can marshal the energy in similar projects around
standards like bibx and citestylex)!

Bruce

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