BibTeX

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1 About BibTeX
2 What could we do?
3 See Also
- 3.1 BibTeX Software

[edit] About BibTeX

BibTeX is a plain-text bibliography management database that works alongside LaTeX, a document preparation system. BibTeX was created in 1985, and is still in use today by certain sectors of the academic community.

LaTeX and LaTeX editors (like LyX) use BibTeX as follows:

A .bib file contains a list of references for use in the document. This can be shared among many documents. The idea is that you enter the data once in to the .bib file and then yo can just import it in to your document. Each citation is made up of a 'class' (ie. 'book'), an ID and a list of properties.
A .bst file defines the style of bibliography entry for use in the document (eg. Harvard style)
While writing a LaTeX file, you can then cite the reference by entering "\bibliocite{Smith1995}" (presuming that Smith1995 is the ID).

[edit] What could we do?

There already exist RDF models of the BibTeX format. I (Tom) propose that we turn the RDF models in to semantic class names and produce an XSL stylesheet to turn HTML in to both RDF and BibTeX.