[Axiom-developer] RE: Web based bibtex

[Page, Bill]

On Wednesday, October 05, 2005 10:24 AM C Y wrote:
> 
> Bill, I'm assuming the Axiom Portal uses this for Bibliography stuff?
> http://plone.org/products/cmfbibliographyat
> 

Yes, but we are still at the previous older version
CMFBibliographyAT-0.4.

>From your link above I see that the current version is 

http://plone.org/products/cmfbibliographyat/releases/0.7.0

CMF Bibliography AT 0.7.0

and that these is a new candidate release 0.8.0rc1.

That's good news! I think this a great product for plone and it's been
around for a while, but the original developer sort of lost interest.

The latest info is:

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A reference release to make the original status available before
the changes introduced with 0.8. Might be relevant for people using
it in custom settings already. New users should start with 0.8 or
above.

Available downloads

Download CMF Bibliography AT 0.7.0 for all platforms (108.6 kB)
Download CMF Bibliography AT 0.8.0rc1 for all platforms (111.0 kB)

First release since a long time. Therefore the version jump from 0.4
to 0.7. Too many changes to list them here. Most important addition
might be the BibTeX marshaller. Also, the package structure now
follows AT's conventions.
  Created by raphael
  Last modified 2005-09-16 06:53 AM 

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I think it would be a good idea if we upgraded the MathAction site
to at least the new 0.7.0 version.

We are also a little behind in the Plone releases. The current Plone
is 2.1. On MathAction we are at 2.0.4.

All it takes is someone (like you! :) to say they are interested in
this and I would be glad to spend some time doing the upgrades.

> I'm trying to figure out if it is searchable

Yes, it is searchable by default as part of the plone portal
site. If you enter keywords in the search box on the upper right
some of the things you find will be BibTeX records. In the
Advanced Search you can limit the search to just BibTeX records.
See

http://page.axiom-developer.org/zope/Plone/search_form

Click 'Item type' ( ) Select All/None, then check off as many of
the *reference* types as you want. Enter some Search Text e.g.
"quadratic" and then click 'Search'. You should see 4 bibtex
references.

> and can be organized by category, but so far I'm not having much
> luck.

I don't know how to do that exactly, but I do know that it is
possible to have multiple bibliographies and to search them all
together or separately. In Plone we could organize the separate
bibliographies into a hierarchical folder structure.

> I think for future purposes we will need something with search
> capabilities.  Also, if possible, it would be nice to be able to
> identify which part(s) of Axiom a particular paper is relevant
> to.
> 

I think that it is possible to add such notes to the bibtex entries.

Regards,
Bill Page.