Tellico

Tellico is a KDE application for organizing your collections. It provides default templates for books, bibliographies, videos, music, video games, coins, stamps, trading cards, comic books, and wines.

Tellico allows you to enter your collection in a catalogue database, saving many different properties like title, author, etc. Two different views of your collection are shown. On the left, your entries are grouped together by any field you like, allowing you to see how many are in each group. On the right, selected fields are shown in column format, allowing you to sort by any field. On the bottom is a customizable HTML view of the current entry. The entry editor is a dialog box where you enter the data. Check out the screenshots.

I started developing it when I couldn't find a personal database program for KDE which didn't using a SQL backend. The data is saved in XML format, which makes for easy parsing. It will run on any platform which KDE supports, most commonly Linux. Tellico is licensed under the GNU General Public License, giving you the freedom to modify and distribute the source code.

If you download Tellico and like it, do let me know. I'm happy to try to accommodate any suggestions. Also, if you package Tellico for a distribution which isn't available elsewhere, I'd be happy to host it. If you have translation updates, please pass them on as well. I do have to say that Tellico is a hobby for me, and it is released without any guarantees or warranties. It may crash a lot for you, it may not do anything that you find useful.

Capabilities

• Supports default collections of books, bibliographic entries, videos, music, video games, comic books, coins, stamps, trading cards, wines, board games, and file catalogs.
• Supports user-defined custom collections, as well.
• Supports any number of user-defined fields, of several different types: text, paragraph, list, checkbox, number, URL, date, images, and combinations.
• Handles entries with multiple authors, genres, keywords, etc.
• Automatically formats titles and names
• Supports collection searching and view filtering
• Sorts and groups collection by various properties
• Automatically validates ISBN
• Allows customizable entry templates through XSLT
• Imports Bibtex, RIS, CSV, PDF, and many other formats
• Exports to Bibtex, ONIX, CSV, HTML, PilotDB, and other formats
• Includes translations for more than nine languages, other than English
• Imports information directly from Amazon.com (US, Japan, Germany, United Kingdom, France, and Canada), IMDb, z39.50 servers, PubMed, SRU servers, various other websites, and from external scripts.
• Imports CDDB data
• Scans and imports audio file collections, such as mp3 or ogg

MD5 Checksums

  6e08c3f96c5b2ca871b83dbaca41b2ae  tellico-1.3.3.tar.gz

Distribution Availability

Tellico is available in:

• Mandriva contribs
• Debian
• Gentoo ebuilds
• FreeBSD ports
NetBSD
• OpenBSD ports
• openSUSE
• Fedora
• PCLinuxOS
• Pardus
• ArchLinux Community Repository

Recent Changelog

Tellico 1.3.3 - 9 July 2008

• Fixed bug with file catalogs to properly match on file location
• Changed Arxiv fetcher to remove ID version number from results
• Updated drag-and-drop to allow HTTP urls, i.e. dragging bibtex file from browser
• Updated Porbase in z39.50 server list
• Fixed copy() for text selection in main entry view

Tellico 1.3.2.1 - 24 May 2008

• Fixed broken en_GB translation

Tellico 1.3.2 - 23 May 2008

• Added languages and editors to Amazon.com search.
• Fixed PubMed search to use UTF-8, and to include all keywords.
• Updated MODS import to improve importing from refbase and wikindx.
• Updated XML file loading to remove duplicates and ignore white-space.
• Added LCCN validation and multiple LCCN searching from z39.50 sources.
• Improved IMDb search results.
• Updated entry creation to always add default values.
• Updated MODS conversion to add Canadian LCC values.

Tellico 1.3.1 - 10 March 2008

• Added data source for discogs.com, a database for musical albums, including vinyl
• Added data source for Google Scholar
• Added LCCN search to z39.50 and SRU sources
• Added DOI search to Pubmed source
• Updated CrossRef source to use new unixref format for more data
• Improved loading performance to delay loading linked images as long as possible
• Updated Delicious Library importer to look for cover images
• Updated BoardGameGeek source to grab cover image, patch from Sven Werlen
• Fixed bug that prevented bibtex from working for external application sources
• Changed "ISBN not found" dialog to only appear when searching for multiple values
• Fixed bug with SRU format not getting remembered in config dialog
• Fixed bug with entries with multiple titles not getting linked correctly in HTML export
• Fixed bug with some free-form date fields getting formatted incorectly into empty strings
• Fixed bibtex import for keywords field

Tellico 1.3 - 29 January 2008

• Added board game collection, and data source for BoardGameGeek, using patch from Steve Beattie (requires ruby).
• Added data source for using any GCstar plugin
• Added importers for Griffith, Referencer and Delicious Library
• Added importer for PDF files, using the exempi and poppler libraries (optional)
• Added drag & drop for importing PDF, bibtex, and RIS files
• Added DOI field and searching crossref.org, citebase.org, Bibsonomy, and arxiv.org
• Added command for merging multiple entries, based on a patch from Cyril Dangerville
• Updated CSV importer, IMDb fetcher, and Spanish Ministry of Culture script
• Added option to save image files in a local directory relative to data file
• Added option to save a link to an image file instead of copying it
• Extended the DCOP interface to allow more scripting, including adding and modifying entries
• Experimental barcode scanning with a webcam (use --enable-webcam for the configure script). See Sebastian's website about his patch for more details.
• Added Ukrainian translation, from Serhij Dubyk Сергій Дубик