From: "Aonghus Lawlor" <aonghus at fiachra.ucd.ie>
> We have a lot of scientific papers in the lab- mostly pdf or ps that
> we download from the web or have prepared ourselves. I want to
> organise them so that we can find the publication or information we
> are looking for quickly and easily. I think I need to have a small
> database backend with dates, titles etc and a link to the actual
> paper. It would be nice to tie this to a bibtex/XML reference for
> the paper so that the information could be easily displayed on a web
> page. It would also have to be possible to easily add new documents,
> perhaps, with a web form.
>> I am not an expert with the tools needed to put this together, so I
> am looking for some pointers/ideas.
>> Is there a perhaps a (free) system to do this kind of thing (for
> linux of course)?
>> aonghus
>> --
> Aonghus Lawlor
> Irish Centre for Colloid Science and Biomaterials
aonghus at fiachra.ucd.ie
> Department of Chemistry 00 353 1 7062418
> University College Dublin http://fiachra.ucd.ie/
Unfortunately, I don't have any direct experience in this area, but I
asked a librarian friend for pointers, and she suggested that the Web4Lib
list <http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/> which is a forum populated by
librarians might may some pointers.
Aengus Lawlor (yes, really).
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