Re: [biborb-general] bib entry display

[Venkat Krishnaswamy]

Thanks, Dominik, For now, we may plan on using this as a reference
database for a small library (about 1000 books). The load won't be a
problem, we believe. It might work very well for our current
requirements.

Thanks again, for all your inputs.

Regards,
Venkat.

On 1/17/06, Dominik Benz <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Venkat, Hi Guillaume,
>
> > Thank you very much for a prompt reply and those modified files.
> You're welcome :)
>
> > I have another quick question too. How well do you expect your system
> > to scale as far as the number of entries in the bibtex database goes?
> > I have recommended BibORB to a guy who posted a question here
> > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-422675.html and intend to
> > recommend this to my other acquaintances in the academia.
> >
> > Will BibORB as it is scale easily to thousands of references?
> First of all I am not the author of BibORB, I just found this (really
> wonderful, thanks Guillaume) script and am working with it for some time
> now. We currently manage a bibliography containing roughly 2000
> references with it, and it works fine (around 50 users work with it);
> although the "browse" feature tends to be a little bit slow, but still
> OK. Additionally, we have it running on a really big web server (Xeon
> 2.8 Ghz, 2 GB RAM). I expect BibORB to work well with more references,
> but as soon as the number grows much larger ( > 10000 entries), I would
> definitely suggest to split the bibliography into several bibliographies
> (which is supported by BibORB), otherwise the processing might become
> too time-consuming.
>
> Another question is if it scales to a much larger number of users; I
> have the impression that the XML/XSLT-processing is relatively
> resource-intensive compared to a database-driven approach. This means
> you really need a big machine for more users. And if a lot of users have
> the permission to modify entries, there is not yet a locking mechanism
> implemented to prevent two users from modifying the same entry.
>
> My conclusion is that BibORB scales well, but definitely up to a certain
> limit of users and entries and webserver resources. Once again, this is
> my personal impression after working for roughly a year with this
> software. Guillaume, what do you think?
>
> Regards & have a nice day,
> Dominik
>
>
> > On 1/16/06, Dominik Benz <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> >>Hi Venkat,
> >>
> >>sorry, I forgot to attach the files - here they are.
> >>
> >>Regards,
> >>Dominik
> >>
> >>Dominik Benz schrieb:
> >>
> >>>Hi Venkat,
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>thanks for this wonderful software! i'd love this feature:
> >>>>
> >>>>in the "Browse" or "Display all" modes or whenever a bibtex entry(s)
> >>>>is displayed, is it possible to show all (or a predefined set of)
> >>>>various bib fields? right now, only the title and the author name are
> >>>>displayed. i'd like to display more fields in the displayed entries.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>The display of the entries is controlled by an XSL-stylesheet, namely
> >>>the one found in the file
> >>>
> >>>  <biborb_dir>/xsl/biborb_output_model_for_table.xsl
> >>>
> >>>If you're familiar with XSL, you can modify it according to your needs
> >>>and display whichever fields you like. For my purpose, I modified it to
> >>>display the fields (if available):
> >>>
> >>>  address, publisher, booktitle, journal, year, volume, number, pages, note
> >>>
> >>>Additionaly, I applied some minor modifications to the CSS-file
> >>>responsible for the display of the entries (found in
> >>><biborb_dir>/css/bibtex_table_look.css). You find both of these files in
> >>>the attachment.
> >>>
> >>>So if you want to see what it looks like, do the following:
> >>>
> >>>1) make a backup of your
> >>>   <biborb_dir>/xsl/biborb_output_model_for_table.xsl
> >>>   <biborb_dir>/css/bibtex_table_look.css
> >>>2) copy the attached files to the appropriate location
> >>>3) Visit your BibORB-page, reload it and it should work
> >>>
> >>>Hope this helped, if you have some more questions don't hesitate to ask,
> >>>regards,
> >>>
> >>>Dominik
>