I am doing a bit of research on different areas (AI, cognition, music psychology, aging...) and have gathered so far a huge amount of information in the form of web links, pdfs, printed books and courses. My interest would be to know whether there are any tools around in order to organize this information and tag it with keywords, tags and notes in such a way that a selection of relevant items can be gathered in order to structure my work and make better progress. As of today I am using The Brain 12 and some self-developed tools. The problem with self-development is the time it takes to define, program, debug and validate own software. The problem with commercial tools as The Brain is that they focus on small-scale, personal solutions of a closed nature and do not allow easy integration with other tools. For instance, I would like to extract information I already gathered in a relational data base, input it in The Brain for good visualization, massage it and export it back to other AI tools that could search for relationships or patterns, at a higher level.
In short, programming all by myself takes too long and distracts from the research. Taking off-the shelf products has the limitation that they are closed and not flexible for real research purposes.
So the question is whether any "open" tools for organizing information are available or under advanced development anywhere, which could be tried out.
When I developed this set of tools "
Engine for Virtual Learning including tools, standards and new learning approach according to Predictable and Unpredictable Events" I was looking for contracts to apply this to many fields, some of them were described at www.ediaudit.fr , unfortunately except "Charles Goldfarb" believed in the power of my proposal and I am grateful for his encouragement. This is Google translation " To justify this flexibility, EDIAUDIT has been identified as a toolbox which is personalized according to the rules of the profession through the construction of a knowledge base which will be the communication medium between the partners of this profession. "
https://www.academia.edu/25204851/Engine_for_Virtual_Learning_including_tools_standards_and_new_learning_approach_according_to_Predictable_and_Unpredictable_Events
Thanks for the info. Unfortunately, I cannot understand very well what you are proposing, since I cannot figure out the usability in my case. Do you have a simpler description? Thanks.
I don't want to disappoint you, but some scientists understand my publications, that's an example: " Dear Sir We are definitely on the same page in terms of developing this line of research. Thank you very much for this important approach and research ", pls be patient and look at my publications at academia.com
I thank Gabriele Scheler for the interesting hint about Mendeley. It is not exactly what I was looking for, but it seems to be a useful tool in order to seek and gather literature. I remember that I gave it a try seven years ago, but it did not work so well as the version I just tried out.
Also, thanks to Christian Neurohr regarding Zotero. I will give it a try.
As I mentioned, I use The Brain and it is good for establishing relationships among thoughts and web links, but it is a closed system designed for private purposes and to my understanding not so well suited for managing research papers.
I am sure that there are other options out there@ and I find it very encouraging to have got these answers so far.
Thanks to all. I will keep you posted if I happen to find something really innovative.
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