Friday, August 7, 2015

Feature of the Week: Person Entities

It is vacation time and hence our features of the week are more sporadic but this week we want to give you a glimpse on current developments. 
One of the main features we are working on is the implementation of persons (i.e., authors and editors of publications as well as users) as first-class entities in BibSonomy. The goal is to improve the search and disambiguation facilities. These are crucial for person names since they frequently contain duplicates (example: http://www.bibsonomy.org/author/Li). 
This also allows us to add extended features for persons. For instance, it will be possible to define relationships between persons like the advisor-advisee relation. Ultimately, this will extend BibSonomy towards a full-fledged system to manage scientific genealogies. We hope you will like this feature and welcome any comments on it!

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