Hello everyone!
I am fascinated with the calibre project! I bought an Amazon Kindle for the holidays and quickly found the need to convert different types of E-Books. As a result, I stumbled across calibre.
As a fan of all things Open Source, I enrolled in a class entitled "Open Source Computing." This course is a practicum which requires us to create or take part of an Open Source project. My project of choice was calibre.
Being a student most of my life, I have come to appreciate recursion to do work. How does this tie into anything that I mentioned before? Well... I can explain!
When I was picking a project to contribute to, I had a requirement to meet: the involvement had to contribute some novelty to the project, and I needed to include some academic research explaining why I chose what I did. As I was gathering scientific journal articles, most of them I got over the internet in the form of PDFs. Since I have a long commute from home to school, I added these PDFs to my Kindle using calibre.
After I was done reading a few articles on my Kindle, I realized that I wanted to cite them. I went into my calibre library and tried to export the metadata to form a bibliography but realized that there's no automated process to do so. This is when my idea to develop an extension/plug-in for calibre fostered.
IDEA:
The idea is to use the metadata of the books, articles, documents, etc. within calibre to generate a bibliography. It would start by requiring the user to specify what sources were used, if there are any more, if there are any external ones, and finish by specifying what bibliography format is required. Once executed, a file would be created which contains this bibliography generated with the documents within calibre.
My goal is to generate a BibTex document with the metadata from calibre.
What do you all think?
