Those terrible meaningless PDF names, along with wanting to automate grabbing BibTeX from online databases (mostly ACM and IEEE for me), were the main drivers for writing BibDesk, a Mac OS X reference manager: http://bibdesk.sourceforge.net/
I started it back in ~2002 or so, and it's been kept running by a small group of contributors ever since.
Not a multi-user or web-based solution, but it has accumulated quite a few features (including searching many databases) that can make keeping a personal BibTeX file up to date much less of a pain.
I started it back in ~2002 or so, and it's been kept running by a small group of contributors ever since.
Not a multi-user or web-based solution, but it has accumulated quite a few features (including searching many databases) that can make keeping a personal BibTeX file up to date much less of a pain.