Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 14:04:45 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Gr=FCnewald_Micha=EBl?= <michaelgrunewald@yahoo.fr> To: Daniel Underwood <djuatdelta@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PDF inventory software Message-ID: <3D527043-AF88-4A26-8029-FD51159E6ABB@yahoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <b6c05a470906081417x370edb66yb86fac71b462eab8@mail.gmail.com> References: <b6c05a470906081417x370edb66yb86fac71b462eab8@mail.gmail.com>
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Le 8 juin 09 =E0 23:17, Daniel Underwood a =E9crit : > I'm looking for a way to manage my personal collection of research > articles. Ideally I'd like some way to keep records on authors, > keywords, journals, and publication years of articles (PDF files) > downloaded onto my local drive. Hi Daniel, I am also a researcher, and although I did not find any tool suited to =20= the management of my article's collection, I elaborated a methodology =20= I am rather happy with. Let me detail this methodology: The atom in the organization of my collection of articles is the =20 directory, this is handy because in a directory you can store many =20 additional information along with the main file (the file containing =20 the article). Each of these folders is stored in a vault. I choose the name vault =20 because, IIRC, the place a dragon uses to store its treasures is =20 called the =ABdragon vault=BB in the relevant literature. We, gathering =20= all these articles we do not have time to read, are pretty much like =20 these dragons sleeping on their pile. Here is the procedure to add an article to the collection: 1. I cd to the `vault' 2. I create a new folder to hold the article, usually with a rather =20 cryptic name (without accents nor spaces) obtained 3. I cd to this new folder 4. I copy the article under the name `paper.pdf' or `paper.djvu' 5. I create a text file called INDEX, looking much like an email =20 envelope, detailing the name of the authors and the article's title During the life of the article in my collection, I will usually add a =20= `mathscinet.bib' for the bibliography entry (when it is taken from =20 mathscinet), I may add reviews of the article and text dumps (all of =20 this with standardized names). With this organization, it is pretty easy to dig the collection with =20 combinations of `find', `awk', and `grep'. Moreover, putting a =20 document in its folder makes the collection very flexible. I have even =20= written a program producing a big `index.html' file from all of this, =20= but of course it is currently broken and I have no time to fix it (I =20 shall soon defend by phD!). There is much more to do, to have the good =20= tools managing this collection! BTW, `djvu' is an alternative format to store articles digitally, it =20 has many qualities, among them djvu files are usually much smaller =20 than the corresponding PDF files (for retrodigitized papers). See =20 djvu.org! --=20 All the best, Micha=EBl
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