sharing pdfs with WebDAV
We would like to share PDFs in our research group. To do so, we've already installed WebDAV. Unfortunately we're still not able to open documents, which are saved on some other group member's pc. How could we view PDFs that are saved at a different pc?
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That’s kind of sad, I thought our institution could switch to using Zotero instead of our homebrew shared bibliography. So I’ll keep an eye on it and hope that it will be implemented in the future.
I've setup a system allowing both bibliography and PDF sharing : Bibliographies are in Group libraries, and the relevant PDFs are stored in WebDAV tree ; the relevant bibliography entries carry a link to the PDF, created by displaying the WebDAV copy of the PDF file in the Acrobat plugin within Firefox, then using the "Add link to current page" option of the "Add an attachment" menu.
It's a bit of a hassle : you have to keep a Firefox tab pointed to the WebDAV directory and open the relevant file in a new tab befor attaching them, you have to have some way to write to the WebDAV tree (this is *broken* in Vista, I don't know about Windows 7), but it gets the job done.
A very much preferred option would be, of course, an intramural server : I can't setup such a solution in another institution who would go ballistic at the though of having a research instrument stored extra-murally...
Is there any timetable for server release ?