[Refdb-users] New user and questions :-)

[<ste...@jo...>]

Hi everyone,

I've followed refdb improvement for years (the first time i saw the=20
project was in 2000 IIRC) and i'm now finding time to finally use it.

I'm going to produce RPMs for Mandriva so you'll soon find them on=20
mirros (at least for cooker on a first time, then for 2006 and 2005) in=20
order to allow more users to use it.

So first i want to thank the developpers for this wonderful idea and=20
implementation.

Second :-)
1 - is there a normalised way to fill in the database from existing PDF=20
files ? To be clear : i have a collection of articles (more than 450)=20
and presumably other colleagues have even or more ... For the moment, i=20
cannot link these publications to any refenreces (pdfinfo on each file=20
is far from being informative) so before using refDB, i need to link=20
those PDFs to their respective database information (authors, abstract,=20
keywords, ...).
I've searched on the documentation, on the web also and haven't found a=20
way to do it in a clever script or code.

Does refDB has such tool ?
If not, can someone indicate me any tool could be appropriate to=20
pre-filter the medline info + pdf ?

2 - Is there a know interface for OpenOffice.org 2.0 communications=20
(i've used by the past pybliographer+lyx, but i'd rather working=20
bibus+OOo) ?

Thanks a lot in advance for comments and suggestions,

St=E9phane

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