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Welcome to BibServer's documentation
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BibServer_ is an open-source RESTful bibliographic data server. BibServer makes
it easy to create and manage collections of bibliographic records such as
reading lists, publication lists and even complete library catalogs.

Main features:

* Create and manage bibliographic collections simply and easily
* Import (and export) your collection from bibtex, MARC, RIS, BibJSON, RDF or
  other bibliogrpaphic formats in a matter of seconds
* Browse collection via an elegant faceted interface
* Embed the collection browser in other websites
* Full RESTful API
* Open-source and free to use
* ~~Hosted service available at http://bibsoup.net/~~

.. _BibServer: http://bibserver.org/~~


Quick Links
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* Code: http://github.com/okfn/bibserver
* Mailing list: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/openbiblio-dev
* ~~Live demo: http://dev.bibsoup.net/ (sandbox) or http://bibsoup.net/~~


Installation
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.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2

   install
   deploy
   config
   upload
   frontend
   api
   parsers
   auth
   bibjson
   licenses

Indices and tables
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* :ref:`genindex`
* :ref:`modindex`
* :ref:`search`