What are some useful challenges?

We want to evaluate a number of software tools in terms of how well they actually handle real-world tasks a researcher might have, whether it be undergraduate student, Ph.D. candidate, or advanced scholar.  Think about tasks that you may be doing on a fairly regular basis ...

• Creating a bibliography for a two page paper; different citation formats
• Collaborative project: multiple people working on the same bibliography
• Get a citation directly from a database? How garbled is it, how much post-import cleanup is needed
• Create a citation from a web site
• Try to export your citations
• Getting started and how long does it take to get to a basic
• Modifying a citation style or template
• Attach your notes, keywords, or tags to a citation
• Language support and diacritics, UNICODE compliance

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