[linux-audio-user] [OT] bibliographic database [wasRe: [OT] OODBs and schema]

Since you two seem to know a bit about such things and you're on the topic ... I have a largish annotated bibliography from my college days consisting mainly of psychoacoustics literature. Some time in the next year or two I hope to start studying that stuff again (along with DSP). When I do I want to move the bibliography to a more flexible format (currently in MSword 6.0 on my old beige powermac that hasn't been powered on in almost 2 years ... ) The main points of interest for me are my annotations, of course, but also, as I created it I kept track of which and how many other texts listed a given text in their bilbliography. I did this to get a sense of what I should read to better understand what I had already read (if that makes any sense ... ) When I get around to going forward with my studies I want to continue adding the bibliographies of any texts I read to my data store in a way that allows me to keep tabs on which authors and which particular texts are referred to most often. I want this to give me a guide of sorts to whose most recent publications to keep track of and which canonical texts to be sure to study. I don't have any formal computer science training and little pratical experience with database or content management systems. Is there an existing system or program I could use to do what I want? Or what direction would you recommend looking into if I manage to try to code something in python for myself? I'm willing and interested to learn about this stuff, but don't know where to start. I don't have time for this project right now, but since you guys are on the topic I was hoping to get some pointers to store away for later. Thanks, Eric Rz. On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 12:15:55PM -0500, Paul Winkler wrote: