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Thanks Millie, Lesley and Jeremy for your suggestions. Much appreciated. Millie, I'm still firming up the book proposal but I can say that it will be different from my previous books. This one will be an academic study based on research I hope to get some funding for. More when things are clearer! Best sue > From: Millie Niss <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Re: [WDL] Advice re collecting bibliographical information > > Sue-- > > Eastgate http://www.eastgate.com/ (the company that made Storyspace) has a > product which they claim is good for collecting notes and bibliographic > materials and so forth. It's called Tinderbox, and is available (only) for > the Mac. I know nothing about it, so I am not endorsing it at all (and I > have heard negative things about Storyspace, so I might even be a little > suspicious), but it might be worth looking into. > > It sounds like what you want to do is actually fairly straightforward but > very tedious (to do by hand, for example). If you program (like maybe in > Java or Visual Basic or some other mainly off-line language that can also > look on the web) it might not be that hard to create exactly the kind of > database you need... > > Can Excel produce the formatting you need? If it can, that might actually > be a sensible choice. (There is also MS Access -- does this exist on > Mac? -- which almost certainly can do what you want but isn't as easy to > use.) What about Filemaker Pro? > > What is the book to be about (or is it confidential as yet?)? > > Millie > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sue Thomas" <[log in to unmask]> > To: <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2005 10:47 AM > Subject: [WDL] Advice re collecting bibliographical information > > >> I'm posting this query to the list and also to Tipmonkies >> http://www.tipmonkies.com/ >> >> I'm just starting a big book project which is going to take me five years >> and will involve an extensive bibliography and an awful lot of footnotes. >> Worse, it will be a multimedia bibliography which so far is spreading > across >> bloglines, furl, and del.icio.us as well as all kinds of other websites > and >> print media. >> >> What I would like is some kind of template - online or offline - where I > can >> collect my growing multimedia bibliography in an orderly fashion, and in >> established format, MLA or whatever. >> >> An important function I'd like is one with fields which retain the correct >> formatting for each entry, i.e. Automatically generating apostrophes > around >> certain kinds of titles, or making them italic or underlined, etc. Doing >> that kind of formatting is the most tedious part of the job, so a record >> which only exports as plain text, for example, wouldn't be much help > because >> I want to be able to then paste references into footnotes and also > generate >> or paste the whole list into a Word doc when I need to - and keep the >> formatting at the same time. A tall order! But I always end up with >> references all over the place and this time I want to start off on the > right >> foot. >> >> I started creating this in Excel but realised it would be sensible to find >> out whether someone has already done it first - does anyone have any > ideas? >> >> oh, and I am Mac-based :) >> >> Thanks >> Sue >> >> ********** >> >> * Visit the Writing and the Digital Life blog http://writing.typepad.com >> * To alter your subscription settings on this list, log on to Subscriber's > Corner at http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/writing-and-the-digital-life.html >> * To unsubscribe from the list, email [log in to unmask] with a blank > subject line and the following text in the body of the message: SIGNOFF > WRITING-AND-THE-DIGITAL-LIFE > > ********** > > * Visit the Writing and the Digital Life blog http://writing.typepad.com > * To alter your subscription settings on this list, log on to Subscriber's > Corner at http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/writing-and-the-digital-life.html > * To unsubscribe from the list, email [log in to unmask] with a blank > subject line and the following text in the body of the message: SIGNOFF > WRITING-AND-THE-DIGITAL-LIFE ********** * Visit the Writing and the Digital Life blog http://writing.typepad.com * To alter your subscription settings on this list, log on to Subscriber's Corner at http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/writing-and-the-digital-life.html * To unsubscribe from the list, email [log in to unmask] with a blank subject line and the following text in the body of the message: SIGNOFF WRITING-AND-THE-DIGITAL-LIFE