Presentations · May 2010
On May 18 2010, I presented my project AV Clash at e-Vent, a “demo day” type of event at Tallinn University (Estonia), organized by its Institute of Informatics. I was a guest researcher at the Institute of Informatics between 2009 and 2010.
AV Clash was under development at the time. The prototype shown at e-Vent lacked any animation material, and the graphical user interface was incomplete. Still, it was interesting to present a prototype of AV Clash for the first time, before showing a beta version at SMC Barcelona a couple of months later.
Blog · May 2010
I’ve been trying out Mendeley and Zotero for managing references for my thesis.
After initially using Mendeley (nice stand-alone app with good UI; good meta-data retrieval from PDFs), I found that it had 3 major shortcomings compared to Zotero:
- worse integration with Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac, which I use;
- inability to add page numbers to citations there;
- Mendeley doesn’t add a “accessed on” field to bibliographical items retrieved from the web (Zotero adds it automatically on retrieval, and includes them in bibliography).
Please note that these shortcomings might result from my lack of knowledge of the tool. But ease of use, and of discovering functionalities, counts…
Anyway, Mendeley has a very nice “sync with Zotero” functionality, so I’ll keep using both. Both are also syncing with my online profiles in the respective websites.
I’m also using LibraryThing for my “physical” books (which are anyway catalogued in my Mendeley and Zotero databases).
I’ve made all my libraries public. Here are the links:
http://www.zotero.org/ncorreia
http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/nuno-correia
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/nunocorreia
(feel free to add me there if you’re using any of these services)
Images from the virtual libraries (and one of the real thing):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nunocorreia/sets/72157624006397200/
