PMS BibTexManager class on PHP Classes site answers

"Dear Eric,

 I looking for a php package to publish the list of my publications
contained in a bibtex file on a website, and to sort them according to
their type, year, .. I've found your BibtexManager package on PHP
Classes. I wish to know if it was powerfull enough to do that, and if
you had some documentation or example to use it correctly."

This is an example of the kind of questions I have been getting lately about a class (there are a few other related classes I get questions about, but this is the main one) I wrote for the Radboud University Nijmegen's Publication Management System (PMS).

I wanted to put the basic answer I keep sending out here so that future queries can be easily referred to this page, so here goes:

You might want to take a look at the PMS project, an Open Source project I setup that manages a database full of publications and bibtex data for the Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands. Here you will find the running PMS application using this code and other related classes.

The project code can be checked out at the CodeYard hosted PMS Project site.

The PMS application website is built with e107 CMS and the PMS code is the backend. Feel free to post questions here and I will try to help out where I can.

PMS v1.3.1 released today!

Since my last release of PMS I have been hard at work fixing some of the bugs and problems that surfaced as a larger user group started making use of PMS. Today I release version 1.3.1 and you can see the results of ICIS research work via the publications listing found on their site, just follow the Research link.

A listing of the fixed tickets can be found in the PMS Trac

• Milestone 1.3 (closed tickets)
• Tickets included in 1.3.1 release branch.

Furthermore, a new site has been opened to host the ICIS PMS at http://pms.cs.ru.nl.

IRIS PMS promoted to ICIS PMS!

As previously stated in ‘Publication Management System is being adopted at RU!’, my publication management software has been bumped up for service at an institute level.

Yesterday I released version 1.2.0 for usage by the complete computer science institute at the Radboud University Nijmegen. After a few weeks of hard work to get the submission process ready for cross-departmental usage and import over 450 legacy publication entries from the previous FileMakerPro database, it has finally been released to the masses!

You can see the results of ICIS research work via the publications listing found on our site, just follow the Research link.

PMS edit function completed!

Over the last week I have completed the edit function, with a total of 6 and 1/2 days of hard coding and released to version 0.9.3! Am very glad to get this done, it was major milestone towards releasing v1.0 which is in the works.

IRIS PMS release v0.8.0

I finished up the final debugging and turned of a discovered magic_quotes problem on osiris to finally get the edit function out there into circulation. I hope to get some good feedback as I continue on with the further expansion of this to allow for changing of publicaiton types.

More as it develops!

IRIS PMS edit function push

The big push for the edit function is in full swing. I was able to spend three whole days on this last week and have a basic edit function that can pick up an existing publication, allow all data changes and write them back to the database!

We are still missing a few things that I consider needed for the basic first release:

• pick up old content and source if a new one is not provided.
• be able to replace exisiting sources with new ones.
• update actors (editors, authors, etc).

A few things that are important for releases following the initial are:

• add new actors.
• change order of actors.
• book/proceedings id's autosync data with in(proceedings/collection/book).
• add new book from edit function.
• type changes.

I hope to release this edit function early next week in v0.8.0.

Publication Management System update

Been a very hectic week as the last bit of functionality for PMS (edit publications) has been dropped on the floor by the developer that was working on it. I have had to start all over from scratch and hope to have it finished in the next 10 days.

I have already setup an edit form, can pull up a complete article and pump it thru a basic edit sequence and have it ready to put into the database. I have to sort out a few of the more complex workflow changes that can occur, like changing from one type of publication to another which means different data field have to be filled.

This will be keeping me busy for some time now...

IRIS PMS release v0.6.1

Today I release a minor updaet v0.6.1 with some much needed fixes.

Since my last posting I have pretty much finished the 1.0 functionality. I have farmed out the last bit of work to a collegue who needs to implement a publication edit function. Now there only remains the bugs as listed on the roadmap.

I will be moving on to our next big project so have to spend less than 1 day a week on continuing development and bug fixing. Most IRIS department employees have used the system and with their input I am sure many more enhancements will be implemented.

The project has been moved into the CodeYard project. Feel free to jump in and help out!

IRIS Publication Management System update

Time to start mentioning my work on a development project for my work, called the IRIS Publication Management System or PMS for short. Believe me, I know the English meaning for PMS, but it does fit when you see the headaches it gives me! You can take a look at the production site running here:

https://osiris.cs.kun.nl/pms/news.php

This week I have received help from a colleage, who will be implementing the edit publication functionality. Good for me so I can concentrate on finishing the submission workflow for inproceedings, incollection and inbook, the bibtex types that are the most complicated.

I have finished the inproceedings it seems this week, so only two to go! I have a bit more testing and refining to do, but had two publications (proceedings and inproceedings) submitted at the end of the workflow so I am happy!

When I get this finished I will be releasing version 0.4. You can follow the progress on the Trac site I setup this week for the project:

http://osiris.cs.kun.nl/projects/pms/roadmap