New user and questions :-)

Hi,

Stéphane Teletchéa writes:
 > I'm going to produce RPMs for Mandriva so you'll soon find them on=20
 > mirros (at least for cooker on a first time, then for 2006 and 2005) in=20
 > order to allow more users to use it.
 > 

...which is a real cool thing. How hard is it to turn these RPMs into,
say, SuSE or Redhat RPMs?

 > 1 - is there a normalised way to fill in the database from existing PDF=20
 > files ? To be clear : i have a collection of articles (more than 450)=20
 > and presumably other colleagues have even or more ... For the moment, i=20
 > cannot link these publications to any refenreces (pdfinfo on each file=20
 > is far from being informative) so before using refDB, i need to link=20
 > those PDFs to their respective database information (authors, abstract,=20
 > keywords, ...).
 > I've searched on the documentation, on the web also and haven't found a=20
 > way to do it in a clever script or code.
 > 
 > Does refDB has such tool ?

I'm afraid no.

 > If not, can someone indicate me any tool could be appropriate to=20
 > pre-filter the medline info + pdf ?
 > 

I know this does not help you after the fact, but I save the XML
Pubmed record along with every PDF that I locate through Pubmed. This
way I can link the PDFs to the references while I add them to the
database.

I guess you're asking for some monster script that analyzes the PDFs,
sends appropriate queries to Pubmed, converts the returned data to
RIS, adds the path to the PDF to the AV field, and loads the record
into your database. Sure doable but I'm afraid I lack the time to
tackle this.

 > 2 - Is there a know interface for OpenOffice.org 2.0 communications=20
 > (i've used by the past pybliographer+lyx, but i'd rather working=20
 > bibus+OOo) ?
 > 

Not that I know of. I'm not familiar with the programming facilities
of OO, but I'm sure a skilled programmer could make the two talk to
each other.

regards,
Markus

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