simple Document Database System (sDDS)
The goal of this projects was to provide a simple way in which to
manage my references. Something that was a little more flexible
than a spreadsheet, but not as complicated and bloated as one of the
commercial reference managers such as EndNote. The solution I
used was to simple use a spread program to create a CSV text file with
various fields such as Author, Keywords etc. for the bibliographic
entries. A chemical structure database was also created in a
similar fashion. Searching through this file was then
accomplished either using a CGI perl script to create a web interface,
or a Java program for running on the desktop. The search programs
also create links to any PDF and structure files I have for those
entries.