Comments on: Mendeley

By: Mike Arthur

Mike Arthur — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:39:59 +0000

@Thomas: I’d be interested in that too, is KOffice 2 working cross-platform yet?

@Sebastian: Yeh, that sounds like a good idea too. Currently Mendeley is closed source but if that changes then more extensive (i.e. beyond just DBUS) will be possible. I’m hoping to release at least some sort of code under a liberal license sooner rather than later.

By: Sebastian Trüg

Sebastian Trüg — Fri, 09 May 2008 08:04:41 +0000

@Mike: Actually I though about maybe a plugin for Mendeley that would use Nepomuk as a data store, thus enriching and reusing the existing information. Of course, having a DBus interface could allow to write some extractor for the Mendeley data. But then, “integration” would not be real, only faked.

By: Thomas Zander

Thomas Zander — Fri, 09 May 2008 07:13:57 +0000

Please look at opportunities at KOffice integration; KOffice has got awesome pluging capabilities nowadays and a Mendeley dock-widget (that communicates over dbus?) might be a really cool thing to do

By: Mike Arthur

Mike Arthur — Thu, 08 May 2008 10:49:49 +0000

@Sebastian: The client itself won’t be open-source (to begin with anyway) but the data will (eventually) be available to clients using an web-based interface. I’ve been working here three days and have been pretty busy already so not sure of the exact details but I’ve made a note and will contact you when I get more details. I’d be up for trying to get some integration between KDE and Mendeley, perhaps we could provide a DBUS interface, would that be convenient?

@marc: Mendeley already has BibTeX support and LaTeX created articles are indexed correctly. We’ve received your beta testing request and will let you know!

By: marc

marc — Thu, 08 May 2008 07:48:29 +0000

Hi there,

after seeing your blog entry on http://planetkde.org/ I got quite excited about Mendeley. Actually I am doing a PhD in physics at Technische Universität München and I am writing up my thesis at the time being. So obviuosly I reading a lot of scientific articles at the moment and it is getting harder with each day to keep everything well organized. I think Mendeley will be a great way to do this as far as I have seen from the video on the website.

However, I have one question to ask, that immediately came to my mind, when I saw the feature announcement on the Mendeley website: Will it have LaTeX/BibTeX support? This would be the absolute killer feature for me. And I think for many scientist out there as well, as LaTeX is still the prefered tool (at least for physicists) in order to write an article, manuscript or even book as it just layouts everything so beautiful! Especially generating a bibtex file from the Mendeley database will be peace of cake…

Thanks for working on such a beautiful project. Keep on going!

P.S. There is any way that I can an invitation code for the beta testing apart from entering my contact details on the website (what I already did…) ? I am really enthusiastic about this project and would like to help.

By: Sebastian Trüg

Sebastian Trüg — Thu, 08 May 2008 06:29:11 +0000

This sounds really interesting. Actually it would fit perfectly with the whole Nepomuk idea. Now I do not know if you are doing open-source but I doubt it. In any case it would be interesting to see if Mendeley could be integrated with Nepomuk to let other desktop applications benefit from the Mendeley data and the other way around. After all you could reference the papers that were indexed by Mendeley in from other resources on the desktop. Imagine for example the good old project idea which means to create a project resource and let it have a bunch of people involved (related contacts), a bunch of files or emails (via the contacts and maybe some tags), and also papers and books that have been published in the project or are a “must-read”.

I would be very much interested to hear about your opinion on this.