Some features could be merged, but there is an important difference in that org-ref uses bibtex as the backend database, and reftex for searching, and org-bibtex uses org-mode headings as the backend database, and tag/property searches (I think).  It is like the difference between org-contacts and bbdb. They both serve similar needs, but with different data sources, and different ways to think about it.

We might be able to figure out a way to specify a "backend" that would allow the independent features to work in both though.

John

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On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 8:21 AM, Fabrice Popineau <fabrice.popineau@supelec.fr> wrote:

+1 for org-bibtex (and ox-bibtex) that I'm using for a couple of years.

But org-ref seems to go further (video is convincing). 
It would be really nice to merge org-ref and org-bibtex before they split too far apart.
Wishful thinking from me because I don't see that I'm in position to do it.

Fabrice


2014-06-26 3:10 GMT+02:00 Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>:

Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com> writes:

>
> This is a lot of useful functionality, and very nicely presented.
>
> Did you happen to try the built in bibtex support in Org-mode core and
> contrib?  And if so, is there a reason that you implemented this all
> independently?
>
> I think part of the problem with existing Org-mode bibtex support is
> that no-one knows it exists.

Well, you can count on one big fan of org-bibtex.el here! (Though I must
admit that I have not used ox-bibtex.el.)

> To help address this I threw up a very quick-and-dirty screen cast
> demonstrating some of Org's existing bibtex functionality.
>
> https://vimeo.com/99167082

Thanks! Over the years, I've particularly appreciated the way
org-bibtex.el makes it easy to keep bib data together with notes/todos.
Both org-bibtex-read and org-bibtex-yank have become indispensable to my
own workflow.

Best,
Matt




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