Any suggestions for library administration software please?

[Mike Marchywka]

On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 08:53:24AM -0500, Little Girl wrote:
> Hey there,
> 
> Mike Marchywka wrote:
> 
> >I was curious though if there are highly scaled down related
> >packages for personal use or authors to track their own library of
> >documents? For example, if you get beyond social media factoids and
> >write short essays or letters or "citizen scientist" papers or DIY
> >projects, how can you track and organize these things? I wrote some
> >scripts to generate "technicalreport" bibtex entries as I come up
> >with new topics and want to organize notes and I have seen browser
> >plugins for citation downloads. Not sure though what command line
> >utilities may exist- I guess something that tracked documents in
> >latex with version control using just command line utilities. 
> >And intead of "check out" perhaps a list of where the documents were
> >sent or if possible downloaded from other servers and collate
> >feedback as is now common on scientific papers. 
> 
> This isn't what you're after, but I couldn't help thinking of it when
> you mentioned organizing things. It's called Paperbox:
> 
> https://wiki.gnome.org/Attic/Paperbox
> 
> The reason it's in the attic on the Gnome wiki is because it's
> obsolete, but retained for historical reasons:
> 
> https://wiki.gnome.org/Attic
> 
> Also, I went to AlternativeTo.net and did a search for "citation" and
> came up with 115 pages of results. This should be enough to keep you
> busy for a long time to come and might turn up something useful:
> 
> https://alternativeto.net/browse/search?q=citation
> 
> Each result displays a brief description, screenshots and/or a video,
> lists whether it's free or commercial, lists the platforms it runs
> on, and lists its alternatives. If you happen to find one that's
> close, but not quite right, its alternatives will be listed just
> beneath it, giving you one huge rabbit hole to climb into and wade
> around in. Some of the programs aren't in the Ubuntu package manager,
> so you'll have to search the package manager for any that seem
> interesting.

Thanks, checking the first page there seem to be several biblio things
that generate specific bib formats rather than just getting say bibtex.
My scripts aren't yet perfect, I'm moving to c++ now that I understand
the logic, but I can now get bibtex and hence flexibly bibliographies
from most site that have the information available. The BoMTeX thing
was just an idea to get more web pages to have "cite" buttons
offering bibtex for non-traditional genres.

I guess what I'm looking for, and have now in simple form, is a
document wizard that just keeps track of all things I authored.
It creates a skeleton document and maintains bibtex for the
document and allows it to be inserted into the document
so anyone getting it can cite it easily ( say with exiftool to
get bibtex or fields). This would probably require some latex
macros to support just latex and a "db" that really could just
be a text file ( something in /var or even /etc that lists all
the publications in my self-library). 

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