We currently do not have a bibliography manager in Fedora for our users. Our options are:
https://www.jabref.org/
(I use Jabref) It is open source, well maintained, has lots of features. Unfortunately, it depends on some non-free bits and is therefore currently unusable in Fedora. One can use the pre-compiled binary provided by upstream:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1299158
Mainly web based, but has a client: https://www.zotero.org/download/
Client can possibly be packaged: https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/client_coding/building_the_standalone_client
http://www.docear.org/
Seems pretty good. Has features like mind-mapping etc.
This is unfortunately unmaintained, not py3 compatible, will be orphaned soon: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1751483
(For completeness only)
In RPMFusion: NON FREE (so I would not advocate for this, and we can't included it in the default install either)
Additional reading:
Even though I use Jabref, I would vote for zotero since it is web/cloud based and allows easy syncing across computers. So, I go:
What do others think?
We've agreed to simply add zotero and jabref to the docs for the time being. We want to focus on packaging the research software at the moment.
Done that now: https://pagure.io/neuro-sig/documentation/c/4b2a97c0575216ee006ba042a8bac6d769ebbfd9?branch=master
Metadata Update from @ankursinha: - Issue close_status updated to: Fixed - Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)
Just a quick question regarding licenses, I read about jabref having extensions that are non-foss, and just wanted some clarification. I checked here https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/blob/master/external-libraries.txt and see the apple bit, but the other licenses look ok. Then I checked the apple part here https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/samplecode/AppleJavaExtensions/Introduction/Intro.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/DTS10000677-Intro-DontLinkElementID_2 and noticed its quite old and may have been deprecated.
My question is could a software like this be packaged into fedora if the commercial/non-foss parts were not included? Secondly, are there any other licenses in that list I should watch out for?
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