It's a bore to have to keep reworking your webpage and C.V.
each time you publish a new paper. Furthermore, if you're a LaTeX
user, you are already tired of maintaining your BibTeX database
in such an unweildy way, and have either given up on maintaining
individual databases, or are frustrated with looking through
your one huge one to get key names, and hesitant to give it out
to other people.
The PubDB GME Paradigm is designed to alleviate some of these
problems. It is a domain-specific modeling environment--based
on the publications ontology of BibTeX--which provides a graphical
interface to your publications collections. It allows you to
build a publication database for each paper you write, and provides
the ability to enter publication data once, and "point" to
that publication arbitrarily many times for future papers. You
can organize publications by area/author/etc., and keep "pointers" to
publications anywhere. In the spirit of BibTeX, it has a special
attribute listing for each kind of publication, relieving you
of the need to remember which fields each kind of publication
has, and visually reminding you that some publication parameters
are optional, while others are required.
The most important piece of PubDB is its ability to generate
artifacts which are useful to the publishing domain. You can
create from your GME database the following kinds of artifacts:
- A BibTeX *.bib file
- A LaTeX source file that cites each entry in your *.bib (useful
for generating text to insert into a LaTeX-based C.V. or annual
report).
- An HTML file, configurable by a CSS class file
- A LaTeX file which produces a summary of your database, with
entries from items which have been filled out by you.
I use this tool to produce my own page of publications (you
can find it here), and also for all of the papers which
I write. I hope you find it useful for you.
Jonathan Sprinkle, Ph.D.
sprinkle@acm.org |
