Hello Robin, hello list, * Robin Kirkham wrote on Apr/18/2008:
I want to set up a shared bibliographic reference database for my research group, and I'm looking at software like refbase http://refbase.sourceforge.net/ or refdb http://refdb.sourceforge.net/ to replace the somewhat random collection of personal BibTeX .bib files we have.
Does anyone have any experience or advice to offer in using such things, and hooking them up to ConTeXt? Most of these systems will of course emit a .bib file which will obviously work, but will any emit the .bbl so I can forget about BibTeX? Will luatex one day connect to a bib database and fetch the details of a cited reference? Is there a ConTeXt "approved" way forward for this sort of thing?
Not that I am able to help you very much further, but I am right now in a similar situation. I am in the process of setting up a db with wikindx http://wikindx.sf.net/ The main developer is obviously not working with any TeX flavour, but there is some Bibtex im-/export (which also concerns only .bib files) that I am ATM fiddling with, but I thought I might add that one to the list of databases you mentioned. Cheers, Andreas