Hi all,

this is an announcement of the latest version of RefDB, sent
approx. annually in order not to clutter the mailing list.

RefDB is a reference manager and bibliography tool for markup
languages. RefDB uses a client/server model to allow easy sharing of
reference data between researchers but it works just fine on a single
workstation. Data are stored in a SQL database server. MySQL and
PostgreSQL are supported as external database servers, but there's a
SQLite-based embedded SQL engine available too. DocBook SGML and XML
as well as TEI XML are supported out of the box, but other document
types can be added as needed. Bibliography and citation styles can be
supplied as XML documents according to publisher's
specifications. Document processing is Makefile-based, so e.g. "make
pdf" is essentially all it takes to turn your TEI document containing
RefDB-compatible citations into a PDF document with formatted citations
and a bibliography.

The RefDB homepage (http://refdb.sourceforge.net) has all the details,
an extensive manual (> 200 pages), a short tutorial targeted at new
users, and a few example documents.

The RefDB sources as well as a starterkit containing the RefDB sources
as well as the sources of all required libraries and Perl modules are
available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/refdb/.

regards,
Markus

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