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A few interesting developments in the world of OpenSource citation/reference management: 

First, John Doe (john_doe@somewhere.com; whois) commented on one of my previous posts on this topic JabRef: Java GUI for managing BibTeX and other bibliographies

john doe Says:
June 23rd, 2005 at 8:42 am e

Jabref does import the endnote file, but this file should be the plain text export not XML or binary. One great feature of jabref is the grouping feature which is quite helpful when you have many references. Finally, there are talks about working on jabref to implement a feature that will allow direct “push” references into openoffice.

Bruce D’Arcus, co-project lead for the OpenOffice bibliographic project, announced on the CiteULike email list a new OpenSource project: Xbib.

—–Original Message—–
From: citeulike-discuss-admin@lists.citeulike.org [mailto:citeulike-discuss-admin@lists.citeulike.org] On Behalf Of Bruce D’Arcus
Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 4:43 PM
To: CiteULike Discussion List
Subject: [CiteULike-discuss] [ann] XBib

People here might be interested in this project I’ve been working on, and that I just annnounced:

http://xbiblio.sourceforge.net/

Download available at the project page:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/xbiblio

In a nutshell, I see CiteProc and CSL as a 21st century analog to BibTeX:

1)  XML citation style language that is much easier to manage then .bst
2)  based on a MUCH better metadata model
3)  designed with internatioanlization in mind
4)  not limited to a single document language
5)  web service-friendly

On the latter, the distribution includes a nice little demo that will suck in MODS metadata over the web — using the SRU protocol — and format it on-the-fly.

 

Finally, Richard Camaron announced the CiteULike Plug-in API:

—–Original Message—–
From: citeulike-discuss-admin@lists.citeulike.org [mailto:citeulike-discuss-admin@lists.citeulike.org] On Behalf Of Richard Cameron
Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 3:15 PM
To: CiteULike Discussion List
Subject: [CiteULike-discuss] Plugin Developer’s Kit released

Hello,

I’ve released an open source version of CiteULike’s plugin interface 
(the code which scrapes citation details from external sites) under 
the BSD license. It’s available to browse here:

http://svn.citeulike.org/svn/plugins/

and the HOWTO which provides the documentation as it stands at the 
moment is here:

http://svn.citeulike.org/svn/plugins/HOWTO.txt

I will hack up a plug-in for APA journals. 

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