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!
