Any suggestions for library administration software please?

[Bret Busby]

On 21/11/2019, Little Girl <littlergirl at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey there,
>
> Mike Marchywka wrote:
>>Little Girl wrote:
>>> Mike Marchywka wrote:
>
>>> >On a scientific page, it did produce the result but that
>>> >format-specific stuff is a problem- it needs to return key-value
>>> >pairs and let you do the formatting.
>
>>> Ah, okay. I don't know of anything that can do that off-hand. It
>>> sounds to me that this would involve an HTML standard that website
>>> administrators would have to adhere to so that you could reliably
>>> identify and grab the correct information from each page.
>
>>Yeah, I think that is doomed. But, if you can find my posts on
>>texhax at tug archives I think I included some notes on "BoMTeX" or
>>adaptation to bibtex to make it more commercial but also useful for
>>most web page types. I'm trying to move my bibtex script into c++
>>for the logic ( still invoking bash from c++ for all the real work).
>
> Okay, I found those. I get the impression, from what you're trying to
> accomplish, that you're probably going to be stuck taking a teaspoon
> to an ocean and will have to take it one site or one business or one
> website administrator at a time. A possibility would be to contact
> the W3C and make a wish for some new elements that website
> administrators can use to make their pages citable in a consistent
> way. I realize you can create any element you like nowadays (and I
> love that dearly), but this would be about creating a standard that
> people would be made aware of and encouraged to adhere to.
>
>>One related idea though that came up in the latex discussion was
>>the idea of making clipboards that had some notion of "where the heck
>>the stuff came from." So, when you paste to the clipboard someone
>>has source material to keep track of how to cite it.  No idea how you
>>make that work but maybe for the next Ubuntu :)
>
> Now that's an interesting idea. As far as I can see, no one has
> invented such a thing yet. You would probably need to contact each
> program's development team individually to see if they'd like to take
> their code in that direction.
>
> I can, however, imagine that it could be problematic. If you cite
> something in file A in folder X and the clipboard program remembers
> the source file and its location, that's fine as long as the source
> file doesn't move and/or get renamed. If it gets renamed later, all
> is lost unless you can grep likely locations for some of its
> contents. If it gets moved, you might be able to find it by doing a
> search for its file name. The clipboard program could be designed to
> monitor the file system and keep an eye on its sources, updating
> them when changes are made, but that would be resource-intensive and
> might be considered an unwelcome intrusion by the user.
>
> This is an interesting predicament all the way around.
>
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Methinks this has digressed somewhat, from the thread topic...

I think, perhaps, a new topic should have been implemented, at the
start of the digression.

:)


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Bret Busby
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West Australia
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