WIKINDX

I originally started developing this as a means to help organise my PhD research by catalogueing bibliographic notations, references, quotes and thoughts on a computer via a program that was not tied to a single operating system (like similar and expensively commercial software) and that could be accessed from anywhere on the web (unlike other systems).  Additionally, I wanted a quick way to search, for example, for all quotes and thoughts referencing a keyword or to be able to automatically reformat bibliographies to different style guides.

As this is a system designed to run on any web server, I thought its use could be expanded to groups of researchers who could all contribute to and read the index.  This concept is very similar to a Wiki Encyclopaedia where anyone can add or edit entries in an on-line encyclopaedia.  An example of a such a wikipaedia can be found at:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page.

Since the original ideas, various others have been implemented such as a wide variety of import and export options and, importantly, the incorportation of a WYSIWYG word processor that can insert citations and (re)format them with a few clicks of the mouse.  This is powerful enough for me to write my entire PhD thesis with.

Developed under the GNU GPL license, the project homepage can be found at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wikindx/
and the required files/updates are freely available there.


WIKINDX Requirements (and has been tested on):
PHP >= v4.3.10
MySQL >= v3.23.xx
Apache >= 1.3x (or any web Server able to run PHP scripts).
The client accesses the database via a standard (graphical) web browser.

Mark Grimshaw
The WIKINDX Team 2007
sirfragalot@users.sourceforge.net
