Alex Halavais wrote:
If you are going for staying power, and interoperability, it strikes me that any system that can import and export to BibTeX should work fine. In other words, the only systems you really have to be wary of are those that keep your data in a proprietary format, and it strikes me that open source products are less likely to go that route than many proprietary systems. Like with email clients, the danger of lock-in has more to do with how open the record system is than it does with how open the application itself is.
On that point, harking back to RefDB (http://refdb.sourceforge.net), it imports and exports BibTeX and in fact I use a BibTex manager (BibDesk) on Mac OS X as the front end to store my references rather than using RefDB's rather clunky command-line, Emacs-based or Web-based interfaces. The combination works well. -- Jeremy Malcolm LLB (Hons) B Com Internet and Open Source lawyer, IT consultant, actor host -t NAPTR 1.0.8.0.3.1.2.9.8.1.6.e164.org|awk -F! '{print $3}'