Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Typo3 Extension for BibSonomy available

Typo3 is a popular open-source content management system, used by a large number of private and corporate websites. It offfers among others a generic extension architecture, which enables developers to add custom functionality to Typo3-based websites.

For many websites in academic contexts (e.g. personal homepages of researchers, universities, research projects, ...), an important building block is an up-to-date publication list. Maintaining these lists manually is a tedious task; in order to ease this process, we have developed a versatile BibSonomy Typo3 Extension! The core concept is to keep all references cleanly stored inside BibSonomy (leveraging all useful BibSonomy features like import from different formats, scraping services, ...) and to generate automatically a publication list from this data. Have a look here what it can look like:
In order to set up such a nice publication list with the BibSonomy Typo3 plugin, you need to follow these simple steps:
  1. Store the relevant publications in BibSonomy
  2. Install the BibSonomy Typo3-Plugin in your Typo3 installation (Download it from here)
  3. Configure the plugin (e.g. select which entries to display, select the layout, ...)
  4. You're done! :)
For each of these steps we have written an extensive online documentation. Our plugin is already part of the official Typo3 installation of the University of Kassel! We offer a number of predefined standard layouts (Harvard, DIN1505...) for formatting the publication lists; in addition, it is possible to use customized layouts based on a JabRef Layout Filter.

Apart from publication lists, the plugin is also able to display tag clouds which can be embedded into websites to visualize e.g. research interests of a group or an individual. We hope that this plugin is another step towards making BibSonomy more useful for you in the process of managing bibliographic data in an integrated and unified way. The BibSonomy team is of course also open to comments and suggestions!

Best,
Dominik
Eingestellt von Dominik um 09:19
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9 Kommentare:

  1. A bit OT:
    The bibtex and endnote download does not use the power of the content-type HTTP header. It's always:
    Content-Type: text/plain;charset=UTF-8


    I'd be happy it the server would respond with more specific headers like:
    application/x-endnote-refer
    application/x-bibtex
    or anything appropriate

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  2. Thank you for this comment.

    In fact we chose to use the text/plain content-type intentionally, as the output is then displayed directly by most browsers - which makes copy&paste very easy.

    We see you point; in the case when you have an external tool for bibtex or endnote files, then copy&paste is definitely an overhead. On the other hand, if one does not have such a tool, it's an overhead to open each time e.g. an external text editor to display e.g. the bibtex code.

    We're currently thinking about making this choice (content-type text/plain vs. application-oriented ones) configurable in the user settings - what do you think about such an option?

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  3. Thank you for your answer.

    IMHO it would be great to have such an option. For example I use zotero and bibsonomy and without proper content-header both tools behave like islands. Content-headers would help to bridge the gap between such tools. (One more step towards a more semantic web.)

    To see the content-header working, you can test the RIS export of the FU-Berlin OPAC:
    Search for a a book, then press Speichern/Senden. Now choose Citation Manager (RIS) in the Field Satzformat and press the Ok button. You once again need to press Ok to finaly fetch the item. If you have Zotero installed, the title gets automagically imported to your list of books.
    In this case, they use:
    Content-Type: application/x-research-info-systems

    I am not 100% sure about which content-header is appropriate.

    I you like me to test some stuff, drop me a mail at bibsonomy_(ad't)_xonx.de Thank you for contributing bibsonomy to the www.

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  5. Thanks for clarification. We'll check which content type would be suitable and estimate the effort of integrating a user setting. I'll reply in this thread - and also stay tuned to our blog.

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  6. One more thing: If you're specifically interested in the integration of BibSonomy / Zotero, then you don't need to use the BibTex-Export at all: We offer a much tighter integration, see http://bibsonomy.blogspot.com/2009/01/feature-of-week-zotero-and-bibsonomy.html.

    Is that a pragmatic solution for your use case?

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  7. Yeah, unAPI rocks!

    Zotero was just an example for content-type usage.

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  8. Ok so how do I export them from my zotazero account, or as they call it something like syncronzing.

    www.zotero.org/studentloandld

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  9. Dear Dan,

    in this blogpost, we've described how to import / export data to / from BibSonomy:

    http://bibsonomy.blogspot.com/2009/01/feature-of-week-zotero-and-bibsonomy.html

    Hope that helps!

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