[pmwiki-users] PmForms for populating a PmWiki page with an archive of papers
Karl Schilke
schilkek at onid.orst.edu
Thu Jul 2 15:24:48 CDT 2009
Hi, I have set up a PmWiki instance for a group of engineers working
on a research and development project. They have collected ~100 papers
that they would like to index on a page. They want a structured system
where each paper is in its own "section", with a standard format
consisting of:
Article title (italics) -> PDF of the paper
Author list
Journal citation / DOI:xxx or URL
Description or abstract (free-text notes or a copy of the abstract)
I handled this for my personal use by simply writing the markup, but
they are, ah, somewhat less than enthusastic about copying and
modifying a bunch of markup text. I was thinking that this would be a
good use for page includes and forms.
I'm envisioning a main page (Papers.Main) that (:include:)'s a series
of short pages (e.g. Papers.Johnson2002) to create the master index.
Each subpage would have the above text, ideally marked up and viewable
as a separate entity. A page template would be used to pre-populate
the markup for pages upon creation.
It seems to me that a form-based approach would be ideal. I'm thinking
of a "Add paper" link from the main page that creates each of the
sub-pages based on four textboxes and a file upload for the PDF
version. I haven't had an opportunity to explore the PmForm
extensions. Is this the right tool for the job?
Would a PTV approach make sense here? Does anyone know of a similar
system that I could look at as a starting point for my application?
I'd be happy to "donate" a version as an example for pmwiki.org, once
I get it working.
Thanks in advance,
-Karl Schilke, Oregon State University.
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