Kaspaliste
Monday, June 28th, 2004 03:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
robinturnerI have just installed kaspaliste, a literature database. Actually, I was just looking for a simple interface to BibTeX (pybliographic is broken for some reason) but got carried away.
Kaspaliste uses a database (postgresql) to store information about publications (in fact setting up the database was a major pain, since I have no experience in postgresql, and little experience in any kind of database). This makes it much more powerful than BibTeX on its own - you can link bibliography entries to notes, cross-reference authors and publishers, and link to a file with the actual text, if you have it. Well, you can do the last one in theory, but I haven't managed to do it yet. There is even a link to your scanner/OCR programs, which would be great if I had a scanner at home.
In other words, I'm not sure if kaspaliste is the bibliography tool I've always been looking for or a horrendous waste of time.
Kaspaliste uses a database (postgresql) to store information about publications (in fact setting up the database was a major pain, since I have no experience in postgresql, and little experience in any kind of database). This makes it much more powerful than BibTeX on its own - you can link bibliography entries to notes, cross-reference authors and publishers, and link to a file with the actual text, if you have it. Well, you can do the last one in theory, but I haven't managed to do it yet. There is even a link to your scanner/OCR programs, which would be great if I had a scanner at home.
In other words, I'm not sure if kaspaliste is the bibliography tool I've always been looking for or a horrendous waste of time.
