Re: [Semediawiki-user] BibTeX import

[Brian <Bri...@co...>]

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Brian <Bri...@co...> wrote:

> I have a large amount of code that does this but I'm not ready to release
> the application in general.
>
> You may notice a near symmetry in the wikitext/bibtex formats. They are
> very easy to convert between. I suggest the following pipeline:
>
> bib2xml | xml2bib # This standardizes your bibtex
> http://www.scripps.edu/~cdputnam/software/bibutils/<http://www.scripps.edu/%7Ecdputnam/software/bibutils/>
>
> Bib2Dictionary | CustomFilteringStep | Dictionary2Wikitext | # These are
> very simple string functions that perform only the work needed to get your
> data into the wiki. 1 hour of work.
>
> Lastly, create properties for the bibtex fields in your wiki and write a
> bot that creates one page per entry, with the bibtex key as the title of the
> page.
>
>
I should also point out that Semantic Results Format supports bibtex export,
so be sure to test that your semantic design is compatible with it.