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BibDesk 1.3 Highlights

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 results show up as a group that you can browse and through with the same interface you use for your local references.

Other notable features include using URLs or scripts as sources for external groups - if you have a script that can generate data BibDesk can read, its output can show up as a group.

Two new data formats are now supported for importing - MARC (and some MARC XML) and Refer. Dublin Core XML is also supported.

Note that this is also the first version that will no longer launch on Mac OS X 10.3.9.

Kudos to everyone involved - check out the contributors wiki page for who to thank!

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Leopard Tech Talk, Jan 19: LA
January 9, 2007

I couldn’t make it to WWDC last year, I’m not at Macworld this week, but I will be making it up to LA on the 19th for the Leopard Tech Talk, to catch up. I’ll probably be there the day before, owing to traffic and an inability to wake up early.

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