Fwd: [Tb] Tinderbox for a research literature review

Thanks everybody. I was just about to write a reply to Art and Scott
when Emily's email came in.

Emily that is beautiful! It is almost exactly what I was after. I
will need to create another prototype for journals, but that should
be fairly straightforward given your current *Source prototype. The
setting up of the *Source prototype it pretty much what I was after!

I am having a bit of trouble getting the exporting to work, but as I
will probably be using Word rather than LaTeX, I will need to play
around with it anyway.

Thanks heaps for your files. I think you have saved me days of
work. It is really appreciated.

Regards

Jim

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> Resent-From: tb__AT__lee-phillips.org
> From: Emily Price <price.emily__AT__gmail.com>
> Date: 16 December 2005 11:25:27 AM
> To: tb__AT__lee-phillips.org
> Subject: Fwd: [Tb] Tinderbox for a research literature review
>
> Actually, I happen to have a sample file right here! The basic way it
> works is this:
>
> The "*Source" prototype is, obviously enough, the prototype for notes
> representing your sources. Its key attributes include Title, Author,
> PublicationDate, etc. (Basically, everything you need for an APA
> citation. It also includes a "Page" attribute, but ignore that when
> you're entering sources. The Citation attribute is automatically
> created from the bibliographic information you enter (in LaTeX format
> at the moment). As you create notes for your sources, make those notes
> prototypes, too.
>
> As you add quotations, set their prototype to the source they are from
> and enter the page number in the Page attribute. I usually summarize
> the quotation in the title of the note and put the actual quotation in
> the body.
>
> Having the sources at the prototypes for the quote means that you only
> have to enter the citation information once and that you can do things
> like color-code your sources.
>
> Right now, it only works for sources which are books. Because the
> citation style is a little different for journals, etc. you'd have to
> create another prototype similar to the "*Source" prototype that
> accepts the right information and formats the citation correctly. If
> you need help doing that, feel free to email me.
>
> I'm also attaching the export templates that go along with the file.
> If you do an HTML export, you should end up with two files, bib.tex
> and quotes.tex, both LaTeX files but missing the preamble. bib.tex is
> an alphabetical list of your sources in APA format and quotes.tex
> contains all your quotations with the citation information for each
> following it.
>
> If you have any questions about using the file or the export, just let
> me know and I'll do my best to help you out. Also, I can help you set
> up some non-LaTeX export templates if that's not something you use.
>
> Hope that helps
> - Emily
>
> P.S. Scott: sorry you're getting this twice. for some reason, when I
> hit reply on the mailing list it went to you instead of to the list.
> As for the second message, I changed this to have the updated file
> when I resent it.
>
> On 12/15/05, Scott Price <sprice__AT__textuality.org> wrote:
>> At 8:49 AM +1030 12/16/05, James Phillips wrote:
>>> Anybody done something similar, or able to offer advice on the best
>>> way to set this up? I have a reasonable understanding of the basics
>>> of how to create, link and move notes in Tinderbox, but am not
>>> strong in how to use attributes or aliases effectively (or
>>> prototypes, for that matter, but I think the correct prototype will
>>> go a long way to helping out here).
>>
>> Hello Jim--
>>
>> I'm pretty sure that folks have done things like this, though I don't
>> have a file to toss you immediately. There are a few pages on the
>> Tinderbox wiki that people have put together to discuss things like
>> this. My apologies if you've already seen them.
>>
>> http://www.eastgate.com/wiki2/wiki.cgi?ResearchNotes
>> http://www.eastgate.com/wiki2/wiki.cgi?ReferenceManager
>> http://www.eastgate.com/wiki2/wiki.cgi?FootNotes
>> http://www.eastgate.com/wiki2/wiki.cgi?GraduateSchool
>>
>> ... a quick scan of those doesn't show any solid "how to build a
>> reference manager", though.
>>
>> ... which means perhaps we ought to make one! Seriously, if no one
>> else on the list has any quick advice on setting up a reference
>> manager, I'd be willing to work with you (off-list) on building
>> something which I could then put up on the wiki.
>>
>> Write me off-list if you're interested.
>>
>> --Scott
>>
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Received on Thu Dec 15 20:27:13 2005