Hello all,
This is pretty speculative, but I'll describe the situation and the desired outcomes...
I have a local folder containing about 500 academic papers, almost all pdfs. I also have a folder containing about 150 academic books, in a variety of files types. Almost all don't have the right metadata tags to generate bibtex references.
Separately, I have numerous .bib files which between them have full tags for all those papers and books and so on.
Now, what I would like to do is integrate these two things. That is, I would like to end up with full bibtex tags correctly associated with each locally stored paper. I would then like to be able to generate new bibliographies from a comprehensive library. I would also like to be able to easily add new entries -- preferably automatically, e.g. via monitoring of local folders (like with music players).
The closest I've come is using Referencer. With that, I can either import a .bib file, so that I end up with a library of references unassociated with local files (pdfs etc); or import my folder of pdfs, in which case I end up with an index of local files, but they're not properly bibtex-tagged (and most don't have DOI info, so Referencer can't just pull the tags from crossref or whatever).
So what I want is to integrate these two -- but as things stand, I can either import the .bib files and then manually associate a file with each reference, or import the paper library and then manually add the tags. With 650 entries, neither is ideal!
OK -- I don't know if that's clear enough. But anyway -- any ideas? Other software, Referencer tricks I've missed...?
Thanks!
This is pretty speculative, but I'll describe the situation and the desired outcomes...
I have a local folder containing about 500 academic papers, almost all pdfs. I also have a folder containing about 150 academic books, in a variety of files types. Almost all don't have the right metadata tags to generate bibtex references.
Separately, I have numerous .bib files which between them have full tags for all those papers and books and so on.
Now, what I would like to do is integrate these two things. That is, I would like to end up with full bibtex tags correctly associated with each locally stored paper. I would then like to be able to generate new bibliographies from a comprehensive library. I would also like to be able to easily add new entries -- preferably automatically, e.g. via monitoring of local folders (like with music players).
The closest I've come is using Referencer. With that, I can either import a .bib file, so that I end up with a library of references unassociated with local files (pdfs etc); or import my folder of pdfs, in which case I end up with an index of local files, but they're not properly bibtex-tagged (and most don't have DOI info, so Referencer can't just pull the tags from crossref or whatever).
So what I want is to integrate these two -- but as things stand, I can either import the .bib files and then manually associate a file with each reference, or import the paper library and then manually add the tags. With 650 entries, neither is ideal!
OK -- I don't know if that's clear enough. But anyway -- any ideas? Other software, Referencer tricks I've missed...?
Thanks!