Hi, I'm trying to find a database to store my list of books, ie, a bibliographic database. I have found, in the distro (SuSE 8.2), pybliographer, but it doesn't even start - that's quality control, I'd grumble - I get: cer@nimrodel:~> pybliographic Traceback (most recent call last): File "/opt/gnome/bin/pybliographer", line 168, in ? execfile (filename, user_global) File "/opt/gnome/share/pybliographer/pybliographic.py", line 26, in ? from Pyblio.GnomeUI.Pybliographic import Pybliographic File "/opt/gnome/share/pybliographer/Pyblio/GnomeUI/__init__.py", line 30, in ? import gnome ImportError: No module named gnome And as I don't know python, I can't solve it. Ideas? Another database that does work? -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 23:16:06 +0200 (CEST)
"Carlos E. R."
ImportError: No module named gnome
You need to install pygnome. The package might also be called gnome-python. Charles -- "Whip me. Beat me. Make me maintain AIX." (By Stephan Zielinski)
The 03.10.20 at 17:54, Charles Philip Chan wrote:
You need to install pygnome. The package might also be called gnome-python.
It was already installed, yast took care of it. But I'm running YOU right now and it is installing a patch for it: ## Patch description of patch python-gnome ... Longdescription.english: Includes python bindings for gnome 1.4. So, that might solve it. I was overtly fast in posting O:-) -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
The 03.10.21 at 00:12, Carlos E. R. wrote:
## Patch description of patch python-gnome ... Longdescription.english: Includes python bindings for gnome 1.4.
So, that might solve it. I was overtly fast in posting O:-)
It did, now it starts. Now I have to see if it is good enough for my needs. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
"Carlos E. R."
It did, now it starts. Now I have to see if it is good enough for my needs.
Pybligrapher (pybliographic) is a good tool, I use it for scientific articles. It's not as fool-proof as a comparable commercial MS-windows SW but it works well. It is a great tool if you work in the field of medicine or medical physics and write in LaTeX as it can also perform an online search in the Medline database and export the result as a BibTeX file. -- A.M.
The 03.10.21 at 16:07, Alexandr Malusek wrote:
It did, now it starts. Now I have to see if it is good enough for my needs.
Pybligrapher (pybliographic) is a good tool, I use it for scientific articles. It's not as fool-proof as a comparable commercial MS-windows SW but it works well.
It is a great tool if you work in the field of medicine or medical physics and write in LaTeX as it can also perform an online search in the Medline database and export the result as a BibTeX file.
Well, no, I don't have anything to do with medicine! X-) I simply want to keep a database of my books and magazines, because I'm loosing track of them ;-) I was thinking of some thing to keep titles, authors, abstract, etc. of the books, but also perhaps the contents page of magazines, and where I keep it. I was also thinking of saving images scanned from the title page, for example, and the content, in case I'm too lazy for typing. Now that I think... there are online databases for CDs, where I can get automatically the CD data. I wonder if there is such thing for books? Entering the isbn, for example, and getting the data filled in ;-) Do you know of any howto or document about such things? -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 00:17:53 +0200 (CEST)
"Carlos E. R."
The 03.10.21 at 16:07, Alexandr Malusek wrote:
It did, now it starts. Now I have to see if it is good enough for my needs.
Pybligrapher (pybliographic) is a good tool, I use it for scientific articles. It's not as fool-proof as a comparable commercial MS-windows SW but it works well.
It is a great tool if you work in the field of medicine or medical physics and write in LaTeX as it can also perform an online search in the Medline database and export the result as a BibTeX file.
Well, no, I don't have anything to do with medicine! X-)
I simply want to keep a database of my books and magazines, because I'm loosing track of them ;-)
I use a database called "bookcase-0.6.6-2rjc.i586.rpm" (on SuSEv8.2Pro). I am sure I found it on freshmeat. Just google for it. I have over 300 books in my collection and it tracks them all nicely. Paul.
A little poking at google comes with your same error, and the solution for that person was: "pybliographic needs the gnome-python-gconf package" Dont know if that helps or not. Regards- Jim On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 14:16, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to find a database to store my list of books, ie, a bibliographic database. I have found, in the distro (SuSE 8.2), pybliographer, but it doesn't even start - that's quality control, I'd grumble - I get:
cer@nimrodel:~> pybliographic Traceback (most recent call last): File "/opt/gnome/bin/pybliographer", line 168, in ? execfile (filename, user_global) File "/opt/gnome/share/pybliographer/pybliographic.py", line 26, in ? from Pyblio.GnomeUI.Pybliographic import Pybliographic File "/opt/gnome/share/pybliographer/Pyblio/GnomeUI/__init__.py", line 30, in ? import gnome ImportError: No module named gnome
And as I don't know python, I can't solve it.
Ideas? Another database that does work?
-- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
The 03.10.20 at 14:56, Jim Bonnet wrote:
A little poking at google comes with your same error, and the solution for that person was:
"pybliographic needs the gnome-python-gconf package"
Dont know if that helps or not.
Well :-? I'm installing right now a patch for python-gnome - well, YOU is downloading it - so it might be solved. As for gnome-python-gconf, there is no such package in SuSE 8.2. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
Librarians use CDS/ISIS (from UNESCO; it´s free) for simple databases. Try http://portal.unesco.org/ci/ev.php?URL_ID=2071&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201&reload=1066332429&PHPSESSID=41643623f87d9296f35b9cf4712ff099 ...and for an open source version go to: http://www.openisis.org/ a. PS--The version of CDS/ISIS for Windows, called WinISIS, is easier to install and to run, but I haven´t tried this for linux yet. windows: http://www.bireme.br (follow link "produtos") linux: ftp://ftp.unesco.org/pub/winisis/unix Carlos E. R. escreveu:
Hi,
I'm trying to find a database to store my list of books, ie, a bibliographic database. I have found, in the distro (SuSE 8.2), pybliographer, but it doesn't even start - that's quality control, I'd grumble - I get:
cer@nimrodel:~> pybliographic Traceback (most recent call last): File "/opt/gnome/bin/pybliographer", line 168, in ? execfile (filename, user_global) File "/opt/gnome/share/pybliographer/pybliographic.py", line 26, in ? from Pyblio.GnomeUI.Pybliographic import Pybliographic File "/opt/gnome/share/pybliographer/Pyblio/GnomeUI/__init__.py", line 30, in ? import gnome ImportError: No module named gnome
And as I don't know python, I can't solve it.
Ideas? Another database that does work?
The 03.10.20 at 23:16, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Ideas? Another database that does work?
pybliographic works after updating python-gnome with you. It works well, and it is a mature project. Still... Adalgison suggested to try CDS/ISIS. What I found as open software was the client side, I think, it is incomplete yet. And I think it could be an overkill: it is designed for professional libraries, not really for home. I could be mistaken, though. Paul Trevethan suggested 'bookcase'. I have compiled version 0.6.6, obtained from 'http://periapsis.org/bookcase/'. It is nice kde application. I would like it to have some things that are planned for a much later version - like storing the scanned front page. The database is an XML file. pybliographic is more complete. It can store articles references, for example, not only books. What I miss is documentation. Not a description of features, but what should be stored where. For example, I don't know what is the difference between the editor and the publisher. Or what date should be stored on the 'date' field. The copyright, the printing, the purchase date? The program assumes you already know, and the nice html help doesn't include links to 'further reading'. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 21:45:29 +0100 (CET)
"Carlos E. R."
What I miss is documentation. Not a description of features, but what should be stored where.
They are standard bibtex fields. Here is a reference: http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~jacobsd/bib/formats/bibtex.html Charles -- "World domination. Fast" (By Linus Torvalds)
The 03.10.26 at 17:04, Charles Philip Chan wrote:
They are standard bibtex fields. Here is a reference:
http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~jacobsd/bib/formats/bibtex.html
Ah, nice page. A bit old (1995), but suffices. Almost :-) -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
participants (6)
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Adagilson Batista Bispo da Silva
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Alexandr Malusek
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Carlos E. R.
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Charles Philip Chan
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Jim Bonnet
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Paul Trevethan