A nice writeup of using BibDesk with Subversion:

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p>BibDesk, BibTeX and Subversion – An academic’s necessity:

I decided I’d choose based on 1) open formats, 2) documentation, and an 3) open development model (open source). After looking through RefWorks, vanilla BibTeX files, ProCite, EndNote, Reference Manager (the application) and BibDesk, I chose BibDesk.

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If you use BibDesk, I want to hear how you use it – what features you use most, and how you have it set up.

I’ve added a page to the BibDesk wiki to share User Screenshots – add a section there about what you do with BibDesk, and share your experiences. I added my own [...]

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This is about building an iTunes store-style interface to the web’s bibliographic information.

I’ve been pushing along the hCite Microformat process, which will set a standard for HTML publishers to add simple semantic markup to their pages that programs like BibDesk can read as citation metadata.

In stark contrast to great but complex things like Z39.50, [...]

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I love reading about how people use BibDesk. Over on the bibdesk-users mailing list, James Howison explains in detail how Alex Montgomery’s OpenURL script is making him happy. The short version: “Zero typing of the bibliographic details :)”

As he explains, you can find some great scripts for BibDesk on the wiki at BibDesk Applescripts.

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BibDesk 1.3 was just released (see here for very complete release notes), and this release adds a few features that were requested four years ago – searching PubMed and libraries with Z39.50 support. If you use those resources, this means no more downloading files to import references – just search from within BibDesk, and your [...]

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For my first contribution to BibDesk in a while, I’ve added the ability to read Dublin Core metadata when it is encoded in HTML META tags on a web page.

What this means is that when using the “New Publications from Web” feature, some sites you browse to will have the publication’s information filled in for [...]

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