Bibliographic databases

Posted by Daly de Gagne
Apr 9, 2007 at 12:46 AM

Alexander, I probably should have put my post re Zoot here, rather than start a new thread. But in the Zoot thread post I have copied a very interesting post on using Zoot as the recipient of Library of Congress bib data.

Daly

Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>This is probably a question for Graham Smith, for whom I am not sure whether he still
>accesses this forum, but I’m posting it here as it might be of interest to others as
>well.
> >In the course of my recently resumed studies I will require some sort of
>bibliographic database. I am reluctant to use a dedicated product, such as Endnote,
>but the advantages are obvious; my university even provides as with an Endnote style
>file to use with the Harvard referencing system.
> >In the spirit of less CRIMP and more
>effectiveness through integration of specific tools, I am thinking of ways to
>integrate such a bibliographic database with my current setup, i.e. Brainstorm as a
>‘short term memory’ / text processor and UltraRecall / Zoot as long term repositories
>of project info and reference material.
> >Has anyone done something similar, either
>with Endnote or other relevant products like Biblioscape? Ideally, I would like to
>keep my reference material in my current repositories linked to/from the dedicated
>bibliographical database.
> >I imagine that I could create the relevant
>bibliographic fields in a delimited Zoot database, but my experience with such
>customising is still very limited.
> >alx
>