Hi,
not reinventing the wheel was one of the goals of RefDB, so I tried to reuse
whatever was available out there. E.g. RefDB only includes bibliographic data
conversion utilities that I either need myself :-) or that were requested,
usually because nothing else was available for a particular task. refdb-mode
integrates bibutils
(http://www.scripps.edu/~cdputnam/software/bibutils/bibutils.html) to convert
to and from a variety of formats not supported directly by RefDB. The
documentation of bibliophile on the web is a little sparse, so I can't tell if
they offer something which is not covered by these tools yet.
I'm also unable to find out what their bibliography formatting tool OSBiB
actually does. Maybe someone can fill me in here. The usual problem is that
they apparently started yet another bibliographic style language, just like any
other comparable project (including RefDB) did. Integrating OSBiB support into
RefDB means having two incompatible style languages around. I'd like to know
what output document types their engine supports. RefDB is targeted straigth at
markup languages, making it vulnerable to criticism pointing out lack of support
for word processors. I don't know if OSBiB could play a role there, but I
imagine other solutions for that problem (think SRW server).
regards,
Markus
Stéphane Téletchéa <steletch@xxxxxxxxxxxx> was heard to say:
> During my packaging work, i did also a package for refdb, a web-based
> bibliographic project based on a mysql engine.
>
> They developped a common interface in php for formatting and
> transforming data, Bibliophiile: http://bibliophile.sourceforge.net/
>
> I was wondering if by chance, this could help refdb project.
>
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