Maintain your LaTex bibliography files using DBLP
It’s always the same, you write a paper / thesis and you are searching for source, than you modify them until they fit into the format you are currently using. But this should not be. A better way is to extract the right key from DBLP and automagically create the correct bib file. You think this is magic? No it’s not, it’s so easy.
There are only two prerequisites for using rDBLP on your computer:
- Make sure Ruby and RubyGems are installed
- Make sure you have a working internet connection
To install the gem execute this from you command line:
sudo gem install dblp
Once this is done you can use it directly for any LaTex file. Imagine you have LaTex file containing somewhere the following citation.
The entity shaping used in web services as discussed in \cite{DBLP:conf/IEEEscc/GrundKZ08}...
\bibliographystyle{abbrv}
\bibliography{dblp}
When you run now the dblp command in your terminal, the program will read the auxiliary files from the compilation and extract the requested DBLP citation sources. Than it will download them and store them directly in a file called “dblp.bib” which you can use in your LaTex document.
dblp my_file
To make it really easy, here is a screencast I did for my small little tool:
DBLP gem Screencast from Martin on Vimeo.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask via mail or contact me using Twitter.
