[Papyrus-L] Searchable bibliographies on the wire

[Rodgers, John R.]

Hi Chris, 
At one time there was a free web-version of Endnote- not sure if that can be adapted to your use.  It is relatively easy to convert Papyrus files to endnote files, though if you have extensive annotation (such as note files) these will be lost unless you jump through some hoops- not possible to do
using direct conversion routines as far as I know.  
     A first-run idea might be this: 
1) convert your files to HTML and post them, each entry to a separate page.   I don't think Papyrus can do this directly, but you could have each page listed by its pap#.  12345.htm, for example.
2) List the key words and post them as well, so that people can know what keywords to search for in your system. You might annotate the keyword list in case some of them are cryptic. 
3) set up a google feature within the pages.  That way users can use Boolean logic to search for text or keywords within the pages.  
(I don't know of any software that would generate the 1600 pages for you automatically, but it wouldn't be hard to write a routine in Basic or macros in WordPerfect (maybe Word, but I don't use that very effectively) to create them by looping on: 
   search for next pap#.
   store this pap# as 1_pap#
   search for next_pap#. 
   copy text in between to new file
   save as  1_pap#.htm
   delete up to next_pap#
   
 
 
 
 
 -John
 
John R. Rodgers, Ph.D.
Department of Immunology
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas 77030
713-798-3903
fax: 713-798-3700

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From: papyrus-l-bounces at ResearchSoftwareDesign.com on behalf of Christopher K. Starr
Sent: Fri 9/19/2008 9:45 AM
To: papyrus-l at ResearchSoftwareDesign.com
Cc: dave at rsd.com
Subject: [Papyrus-L] Searchable bibliographies on the wire


Dear Friends,
 
Here is a question that some of you have undoubtedly already resolved: How do I go about putting a Papyrus-generated bibliography on my department's webpage in searchable form?  I have two specialized bibliographies, one amounting to about 280 and the other to about 1600 references.  Each of them is
probably far better than what anyone else has generated in those particular areas, so it makes sense to put them up there for everyone.  Simply putting it up as a word-processed bibliography would be very easy, but at least in the case of the longer bibliography it would be of rather limited use.  I
admit that I am at best semi-literate in these things, a competent Papyrus user but nearly clueless at putting anything on the wire.  I admit that I haven't examined the company's site with this question in mind, so it may be that instructions are already there (if I could make any sense of them).
 
If any of you who has already had occasion to learn how to do this would like to take me under her/his wing and instruct me over the next month or so, much obliged.  That is, however, a tall order, so I will be happy with whatever advice I can get.
 
Please note that I am about to go over to Tobago for the next six days -- it's not what you think; I will be in the woods, collecting bugs, and not lounging on the beach -- during which I will be out of electronic contact.  I mention this in case anyone responds swiftly and then wonders why I stay
silent.
 
Regards,
Chris


Christopher K. Starr 
Dep't of Life Sciences
University of the West Indies
St Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago
http://www.sta.uwi.edu/fsa/lifesciences/
 

"Back in 1772, a ruined pair of shoes once learned how to speak.  Actual words were punctuated by an animalistic barking and a howling, a longing for roads."

Maurice Greenia in The Poetic Express vol. 23 no. 2


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