BibCiter

Over all, the most important update in the last version is that installation does not crack :P
I was noticed that the installation did not work. Actually, the installation (strictly speaking) did - at least this is my impression - and what did not succeeded was importing some sample data so BibCiter does not appear completely empty. I fixed this.

So, the new things this time are:

- added possibility to sort by year in bibliographies (useful to quicky glance the “range” of a bibliography)
- chaged the sorting option of bibliographies appearing in admin mode besides works: now by ID
- improved bibligraphy presentation filtering
- improved contact presentation filtering
- solved install problem

Fixed some bugs related to bad paths into include tags. Worked locally and in some hosting services, but not in some others (just like SourceForge’s!).

While I first set the project page at bibciter.net, I guessed it was a better option to install the whole issue at sourceforge.net, thus, all the migration is done now here at bibciter.sourceforge.net.

Besides having some problems with some include calls, installing Mediawiki really was a tough thing to do. Best way is to follow these steps:

• Running MediaWiki on Sourceforge.net. Method 1: The obvious way
• Running MediaWiki on Sourceforge.net. Sessions

The project has been accepted by the administrators at SourceForge:

• Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/bibciter/
• Project site: http://bibciter.sourceforge.net, now redirected here.
• Project Admin: bibciter

Enrique Barbeito García’s notes were really useful to know how to upload files (actually, only the index.php to redirect it here) to the project site. Thank you.

I just asked the people at Sourceforge to create the BibCiter project.

Here are the administrative data I provided:

Project Registration Details Page

Project submission

Created: 2006-11-28 14:30

Last modified: 2006-11-28 15:06

Submitter: BibCiter (bibciter)

Project type: An Open Source Software Project

UNIX name:

Descriptive name:

Public description:
BibCiter is an online manager for bibliographic references. Aimed to both manage your bibliographic collections privately and publish them online. Multiuser (admin, edit, external). Lists in APA standards. BibTeX import/export. RSS feed. WP styles.

Trove categorization:

• License :: OSI-Approved Open Source :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
• Intended Audience :: by End-User Class :: End Users/Desktop
• Intended Audience :: by Industry or Sector :: Education
• Intended Audience :: by Industry or Sector :: Non-Profit Organizations
• Intended Audience :: by Industry or Sector :: Science/Research
• Development Status :: 3 - Alpha
• Topic :: Database :: Front-Ends
• Topic :: Education :: Library :: OPAC
• Topic :: Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
• Programming Language :: PHP
• Operating System :: Grouping and Descriptive Categories :: OS Independent (Written in an interpreted language)
• User Interface :: Web-based
• Translations :: English
• Database Environment :: Network-based DBMS :: MySQL

Registration description:
Demo site: bibciter.net/demo<br /> User: demo<br /> Pass: demo<br /> (editor user: can do anything but add/remove users)</p> <p>What does BibCiter do?</p> <p>* Work fully online, with the only help of a browser. BibCiter is built with PHP script language and MySQL database. 100% accessible from anywhere: quite useful for researchers with high mobility.</p> <p>* Make possible the sharing of the most part of your data with others, mainly the works and contacts you have in your database. Personal notes on works, or contact data for authors are kept private for admin users. Diven by a “share your knowledge” philosophy.</p> <p>* Build automagically the “correct” bibliographical citation according to the APA standards (some bad working can happen, nobody’s perfect). The output can be in any language the admin decides (so far installed English, Spanish and Catalan - just for bibliographical output: frontend still only in English)</p> <p>* Assign works (bibliographic citations) to “bibliographies”, so you don’t have to copy and paste the bibliography you used for that article or that conference. Bibliographies are not public and remain the domain of the registered users. Full bibliographies can be listed with the “correct” APA citation to just copy and paste it to your text editor or publish it online if desired. Indeed, you can keep track of all the bibliographies you have “made” and go back to them to build/base a new one.</p> <p>* Assign categories/tags (more than one, but keeping a main category) to both works and authors.</p> <p>* List all the projects of an author.</p> <p>* List all the projects included into another project (i.e. articles cited belonging to this or that journal)</p> <p>* Search through your data by almost all the (relevant) fields (including when you created it, if you have read/downloaded/… it and what bibligraphy/ies or category/ies it belongs to. Crossing of data (boolean AND) is supported.</p> <p>* Import/export of BibTeX files.</p> <p>* Output RSS feed for works (full citation and link to further details).</p> <p>* Be sort of compatible with WordPress themes, so you can surf for better look and feel.</p> <p>What does NOT BibCiter do</p> <p>* Include citations in word processor documents.</p> <p>* Have state of the art code (no, I’m not a good programmer).</p> <p>Differences with other similar apps:</p> <p>* More functionalities than most web apps (less than client apps), specially in the registered users features (most existing apps usually focus on “just publishing” issues).</p> <p>* Work remotely vs. client apps way of working

Current status: Pending Review

Well, here it comes, a new bibliography manager that started back on Summer 2005 to fit my needs, and has become an open source project on its own.

Read the About section for more details.