Feature of the Week: Renaming Uploaded Documents

Hello fellow BibSonomy users,

sometimes there is a need to rename a document you've already attached to a post. Previously, this was not possible in a convenient manner.
But now, due to recent work by Lukas, it is.

Now, let's go trough the process of renaming a file.

First, we pick the post that contains the document.

Next, pressing the icon resembling "rename" next to the file name we want to change ...

... opens the input text field where we can enter the new file name.

Thank you for reading and, as always,

Happy Tagging
Michael

Sometimes it is good to have some work done automatically and we would like to assist you. To make your life easier, BibSonomy supports importing BibTeX and EndNote files (you may get these files from Google scholar for example - or maybe you typed them manually while preparing your previous publications).

Just click "upload file" when you want to add a publication:

Choose the file you want to import and click "post" (you are welcome to edit some options to adjust the import):

Afterwards you may edit the publication manually:

But the best part is: you can also upload files with many publications. All imported publications will be marked with the tag "imported", so you can easily find and edit them later:

Hope this feature will help to save some of your time.

Happy tagging!
Mark

Release 2.0.34

The same procedure as every year month. Today we have release version 2.0.34 of BibSonomy. Besides several bug fixes the release contains the ability to rename your uploaded documents.

Happy tagging!
Daniel

Feature of this Week: Document Preview Pictures

As posted quite some time ago, BibSonomy gives you the opportunity to upload one or more documents for your publication posts. Similar to the preview pictures for bookmarks, you can now also see preview pictures of your uploaded documents title page.

Voilà, this is how it looks like:

Often, one has still remembers the layout of the paper. Therefore the preview pictures can be really handy for finding out which of the documents is the one you have in mind when searching in your collection. A the icon is really small, hovering over it shows you a larger preview:

Preview pictures are only visible for people who are allowed to access the document. By default, this is only you.

You might wonder that uploading a new document, you only see a generic pdf document symbol. In that case, please be patient and check back the next day. BibSonomy works hard for you and creates the image overnight.

Happy tagging!

Feature of the week: Add CSL styled publication lists to your TYPO3 webpages

TYPO3 is, along with Drupal, Joomla and Wordpress, among the most popular content management systems worldwide, (although it is most widespread in Europe). Due to its features, scalability and maturity, TYPO3 is used by to build and manage websites of different types and size ranges, from small sites for individuals or nonprofit organizations to multilingual enterprise solutions for large corporations or universities (read more @Wikipedia).

In past we had built an very rudimentary BibSonomy extension for TYPO3, which is not longer supported by TYPO3 v6 and is not further developed by us. But we are proud to present to you the new BibSonomy CSL (ext_bibsonomy_csl) extension, based on TYPO3 Flow.

With our new Extension BibSonomy CSL you can add a list of publications from BibSonomy to your pages. You can style your bibliography with CSL Stylesheets (Citation Style Language). For this you can choose from a set of pre-installed styles, or you can choose a custom style from the web. Additional you have the option to add your BibSonomy tag cloud to your website.

Installation

To install BibSonomy CSL, log into your TYPO3 installation as an administrator and search in the Extension Manager => Import Extensions for ext_bibsonomy_csl and import them.

After import is finished the extension will be shown in the section "Available Extensions". Press the + symbol for installation.

Add publication lists with Frontend Plugin

Now you can create a new page in the usual way. If you create a new content record you find in plugins section two new entries: Bibsonomy Publication List and Bibsonomy Tag Cloud.

Choose Bibsonomy Publications List to add a list of publications. In "General" tab insert a headline for your list.

In tab Plugin you can setup your publication list. You can choose between user, group or viewable to select the content from BibSonomy. Detailed information about the scheme you can find at http://www.bibsonomy.org/help_en/URL%20Scheme%20Semantics.

Ok, let's go through an example: Assume, you wanna publish your own publications in a blog post (and in BibSonomy all own publications are tagged with myown). Choose user as content source type and enter your BibSonomy user name as content type value (in this example we've choosed the user dbenz). Now you have to filter your selection by using the tag myown. For this, enter myown in the input field for tags. If you want to select more than one tag you have to separate them by a space character. Optionally, you can limit the number of publications.

There is also the possibility to filter the content by using freetext search field.  

Warning: Be aware, that you are using your own account to retrieve the posts from BibSonomy. That means, that all posts, that are visible to you in BibSonomy (your private ones too), will be made visible on your oage, if they fit the description in the plugin record. (In our example: all posts you have tagged with myown.)

In the subtab Layout you can choose one of the (pre-)installed citation styles to layout your publication list. If your desired CSL style isn't contained in the default selection, then you can insert a custom style, by entering the XML code of the stylesheet. The Citation Style Language (CSL) is an open XML-based language to describe the formatting of citations and bibliographies. A large list of freely available styles can be found on http://www.zotero.org/styles/.

In the third subtab 'Login' you have to enter your BibSonomy API credentials. For this you need your username and your API key.

Add your BibSonomy Tag Cloud with Frontend Plugin

Choose Bibsonomy Tag Cloud as plugin while creating new record. Typically, a tag cloud will be placed in the sidebar. So you can choose the right or left content area for inserting.

For tag cloud content you can also choose between user, group or viewable to select the content from BibSonomy. Assume you want to add your personal BibSonomy tag cloud choose user as content type and insert your username for content type value. In subtab Login you have to enter again your API credentials.

Manage your CSL styles with the Backend Plugin

Typo3 extensions are divided into Frontend Plugins and Backend Modules. The both frontend plugins Bibsonomy Publication List and Bibsonomy Tag Cloud, I've already presented. To manage your Citation Stylesheets you can use the Backend Module CSL Styles.

By default there are a lot of styles pre-installed. To add your own custom styles, create a new folder 'CSL Styles' in the page tree. Choose CSL Styles in menu sidebar and select the Folder CSL Styles in page tree. An empty page with two buttons will be shown. Click on Create New Style to add a custom style.

There are three ways to add a new Citation Style

1. Direct input: Enter the XML source of your style in the text area and press Save to add the style
2. Import from URL: Enter the URL of an Citation Style file and press Import 
3. Upload CSL file: Select a CSL XML file from your filesystem and press Upload

Now you can take a preview of your new style: Click on Show Styles.

To delete styles click on the paper trash icon, left of the style.

I hope this introduction was helpful. 

Happy tagging,
Sebastian!

Feature of the Week: Sort your Post Lists

Since the last release of BibSonomy 2.0.33 we announced a few changes: one of them is the new feature to sort publications by the BibTeX field number.
In a previous blog entry we introduced the URL parameters sortPage and sortPageOrder. With the use of the URL parameters you can sort your publication lists by different BibTeX fields in an ascending or descending order.
As of now the sortPage parameter is extended by another option number. The number field of a BibTeX file represents the issue number of a journal, magazine or tech-report. Now you can sort the publication lists in BibSonomy by this issue number.
Here is an example in search of "social" with a descending order by the BibTeX fields journal, issue and number:
http://www.bibsonomy.org/user/sdo/social?sortPage=journal|issue|number&sortPageOrder=desc

Happy Tagging !
Nils

Release 2.0.33

today, a new version of BibSonomy has been released. Amongst many internal improvements we are happy to announce the following changes:

• sorting of publication posts by their BibTeX field numbers via url parameter sortPage=number
• new webservice for querying related tags
• JCBScraper
• Improved rest-client-api including more robust charset handling and document uploads

Happy tagging!
Jens

20DC13 - The ECML PKDD Discovery Challenge 2013 on Recommending Given Names

This years ECML PKDD Discovery Challenge is organized by several members of the BibSonomy Team. After the successful challenges on Tag Recommendation in 2008 and 2009 this years challenge focuses on a new domain, that can profit from recommender systems:

All over the world, future parents are facing the task of finding a suitable given name for their children. This choice is influenced by different factors, such as the social context, language, cultural background and especially personal taste. Most books, websites or mobile apps aid parents only by offering alphabetically ordered list of names.


CAN YOU DO BETTER?

In the challenge, participants will explore different recommender strategies and their ability to predict names, that users will find interesting. Hereby, the recommendation of names provides a serious and versatile task, that can be approached from several different perspectives:

• The influence of personal taste, language and geographic user location, for example, presents an opportunity for context-aware recommendations. 
• The influence of the social context of a user brings in the social network analysis community as another source to improve the quality of the recommender with its methods. 
• The etymological roots as well as connotations of names that have arisen over time (e.g., through popular cultural, political or religious bearers of a given name) suggest that methods based on inherent semantics and “content” may also yield successful recommendation approaches. 
• Methods from the field of sentiment analysis may help to distinguish names which are popular because users like those names from those which are popular because users are interested in their context.

For the challenge, participants can make use of a new data set from the name-search engine nameling where thousands of users are looking up names to find similar or related names to name their children.

Results from an online and an offline experiment will be presented during a workshop, that is held in conjunction with this year's

European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases - the premier European machine learning and data mining conference.

More info on the challenge, on the registration, the data set and the workshop can be found on the official Discovery Challenge Website.

The registration is open!

Your 20DC13 Team
Stephan, Andreas, Robert, Folke & Juergen

Release 2.0.32

Dear BibSonomy Users,

today we released version 2.0.32 of BibSonomy. This release includes many internal changes.

External changes are:

• Redirect to your login page if a login error occurred
• the dropdown menu on the top doesn't disappear as easily as before
• A new scraper for the GBV (www.gbv.de)

Happy tagging!

Thomas

Feature of the Week: PUMA II

We are happy to announce that we could attract a followup funding for the very successful PUMA project. PUMA is a clone of BibSonomy, meant for local installations of universities, libraries or research institutes. It allows like BibSonomy to collect and share bookmarks and publications. It has additional features like an guided export to an institutinal repository or an integration into the OPAC system of the library.
As you may already know PUMA builds on top of the BibSonomy technology and most of the developments made within PUMA II will be available as new BibSonomy features. The project started at the beginning of February and will run one year with an option for a second year. For PUMA II, the DMIR from the university of Würzburg group joined the team consisting otherwise of the KDE group and the library the University of Kassel.

One major goal of the project is to establish a community around PUMA. To reach this we aim for other institutions which will host the PUMA system like the library at our university. Further, we will work on a lot of new features. Here a short list which provides an overview:

• community entries for publications with wiki like versioning and audited entries,
• better integration into third party systems like moodle and typo3 (new or improved plugins),
• single sign on and Shibboleth authorization,
• improved frontend and better support pages,
• better open social support,
• the integration of ping back and
• a new concept to improve the functionality for groups.

Beside all these features we are working on a business plan to support other institutions running a PUMA system. Please contact us if you are interested.

In the near future we will report progress of the project and of course all details on the new features.

Happy tagging
Andreas