Piggy-Bank
Alf Eaton sent me a link to an interesting new Firefox extension called Piggy-Bank. There’s a related Firefox extension called Research Buddy that also has potential.
It is something like a holy grail for academics and researchers to be able to highlight content in a web page, or simply annotate them, while storing along with it complete citation-ready metadata. Nobody has quite done that yet, but these are a start.
I still hate it when I see example after example based on hard-science research workflows. I don’t use CiteSeer, and I rarely encounter BibTeX in my field (more commonly RIS or Refer). I guess it’s no wonder that most bibliographic software poorly supports the social sciences and humanities, given that it’s almost all written by people who come from hard science backgrounds.
