On bibshare

Čt 04 září 2014

(this is originally a comment on the post about “scientific Markdown”)

In my previous life I was using heavily TeX and BibTeX for writing a scholarly articles when working on my PhD in sociology. When doing a large BibTeX database of bibliopgraphy there is a certain moment when one needs to establish some order in creating new keys for the individual references. When I hit that moment, I started to look around whether somebody didn’t do some thinking about the design of the bibliography keys. I found almost nothing on the Web perhaps because there was actually a file bibshare (originally in $TEXMF/doc/bibtex/base/bibshare now I cannot find it anywhere, so I have download a version from older tetex RPM to my website). It describes pretty nice standard, which really should be rewritten into RFC or something of that sort. The two biggest advantages are stable keys (so bibliographies can be exchanged) and a more rememberable ones. So, whenever I see now granovetter:AJS-1973-1360 I do remember (and it has been couple of years, since I used BibTeX last time) that it is an awesome article "The Strength of Weak Ties" by Mark Granovetter.

Category: computer Tagged: TeX BibTeX bibliography metadata


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