The main aims in its design were to allow sharing of bibliographies on a local network and accessing easily electronic releases of papers. It grew from this to permit; creation and deletion of bibliographies, then the facilities to edit BibTeX entries were added thus creating a simple web front-end to BibTeX.
BibORB presently supports:- Extensive functions via the web based interface including:
- Import BibTeX bibliographies.
- Add / Delete bibliographies.
- Export bibliographies in BibTeX format.
- Browse different bibliographies.
- Add / Delete / Modify references.
- Uploader electronic releases of papers (.ps, .ps. gz, .pdf).
- Add link to relevant web pages (internet, server).
- Search in a bibliography (simple, detailed, XPath).
- Classify references by groups.
- Select references (shopping basket function).
- Export basket to BibTeX,HTML
- Generate the BibTeX file associated to the LaTeX
.auxfile.
- You can also use your favorite text editor to edit the bib file and then click on "Update from BiBTeX" to update the database. This bibliography can then be browsed etc. as above.
BibORB also provides basic authentication methods to restrict write access to bibliographies.
BibORB 1.3.2 release, 26 October 2004
Released under the GPL licence.
Update and information available at BibORB website