Sonny Software

Hi Rick, I agree that the wiki page you linked to could be improved. I had long-standing plans to mirror the install instructions from our INSTALL file at the Installing refbase wiki page so I guess I should finally do it. I agree that the wiki page should really list some easy steps at the top of t...

Hi Enkidu, the synchronization process you're describing makes sense to me. In fact, I have just implemented such a modification-date based synchronization feature for the refbase command line client (currently it works with BibTeX or MODS XML files). For each record, refbase stores creation & m...

Enkidu, the scenario you are envisioning is exactly why we've started the Bookends<->refbase integration. I cannot speak for the development plans of the Bookends server and I understand that an all-in-one solution may be the ideal solution. However, this would duplicate a lot of the web functionali...

What I want to do is set up my own installation of RefBase for my research group. I read through the documentation, and my first impression was that it might be quite a workout, especially as I would want BibTeX export and therefore would need to install bibutils. If you've got your own web server ...

Hi, I'd like to respond on your last point (5.). As mentioned in another forum thread I (speaking for the refbase devs) am very willing to improve the refbase integration with Bookends. A full-blown refbase synching API and its implementation in Bookends is one of the big features I'd like to see an...

W.r.t. synching via refbase, we have plans to develop such a feature for refbase. Personally, I'd love to see advanced (i.e. field-level) two-way synching capabilities with dup detection between refbase and desktop reference managers such as Bookends, and I'd be glad to work with Jon on something li...

Hi, I'd like to revive this thread since Bookends 10 now provides direct export of references to any refbase online bibliography database. This allows you to share your academic literature with members of your research group or other people in your academic field. I'm one of the refbase developers a...