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Managing digital documents

Bibwiki helps you managing internet documents and keept track of download date and URL of a downloaded paper.

• To add a internet paper click on URL in the navigation bar.
• Enter the URL in the entry field an click File it!.
• Now enter author, title etc. in the appropriate BibTeX fields.
• The field   docname   has a special purpose: You can define the filename that will be used for the document. If you use placeholders such as   <Author>   or   <Title>,   Bibwiki will construct the filename out of the information in the BibTeX fields.
• Select Save internet document to disc if you want to save the document in your papers folder (defined in   BibwikiSettings.php   in the variable   $wgDownloadsPath).   Otherwise just the bibliographic information will be added.
• Click File it!.

The papers folder

This folder (defined by   $wgDownloadsPath   and   $wgDownloadsUrl   in   BibwikiSettings.php)   should contain all your downloaded papers. The BibTeX field   docname   links to the document in the papers folder.   file   and   pdf   are aliases for docname. In this entry

@Misc{Patashnik:1988b,
   author       = {Oren Patashnik},
   title        = {Designing BibTeX Styles},
   howpublished = {Internetdokument},
   year         = {1988},
   url          = {ftp://tug.ctan.org/btxhak.pdf},
   urlvisited   = {2006-11-04},
   file         = {Patashnik - 1988 - btxhak.pdf},
   created      = {2006-11-04}
}

the field   file   links to the file   Patashnik - 1988 - btxhak.pdf   in the papers folder.

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