A question for readers who happen to manage bibliographies: what, if any, bibliography management systems do you use?
I started using Aigaion for mine. Then I found out that there’s an open system called bibsonomy, which is potentially much better since it lets you tag and share bibliographies socially, and it seems to already know about all the major computer science papers.
Again (see: The problem with standards), I’m frustrated by the fact that I can’t move my data around between applications as I like without lots of manual effort. A worthy research problem would be making data truly application independent once and for all.
johan, Mendeley might make more sense for you. It has the social sharing and tagging features you’re looking for, even automatically parsing some author-supplied keywords. Also, it syncs with Citeulike, so it’s effortless to move your data around.
I am a scientific community liaison for Mendeley, so if you have any questions, feel free to contact me. If you find it useful, we’d appreciate a blog post about it.
Posted by Mr. Gunn on August 15th, 2009.
Mr Gunn, thanks for your suggestion.
Mendeley does look very interesting. I will definitely take a look at it when I get some spare time.
Posted by johan on August 15th, 2009.
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