User scenarios

Different functionalities for different kinds of users are described below.

• BibSonomy for students
• BibSonomy for researchers
• BibSonomy for teachers
• BibSonomy in digital libraries

BibSonomy for students

Finding, selecting and processing literature for seminar works or final thesis

BibSonomy can help managing your literature for your first publications. Interesting features are:

• Collecting publications: See Tutorials to find a comprehensive overview of how to collect and retrieve your publications.
• Citation formatting help: BibSonomy offers scrapers and citation input masks to help you correctly manage your citation metadata.
• Team work: To work with people you trust, and share information only with them, get an overview of the groups and friends.
• Export of publication metadata in different formats: We offer a wide range of different export formats such as BibTeX, EndNote, RDF or HTML. Every BibSonomy page presenting publications provides an "export" button with which you can export the specific collections.
• An export of bookmarks is possible in RSS, XML and the bookbib formats.

Collecting interesting bookmarks for different topics

You may find informative resources on the programming language you learn in class, or interesting magazine articles about a topic in your field of interest. To retrieve your information, create a collection of bookmarks.

BibSonomy for researchers

Finding, selecting and processing literature for seminar works or final thesis

BibSonomy can help managing your literature for your first publications. Interesting features are:

• Export of publication metadata in different formats: We offer a wide range of different export formats such as BibTeX, EndNote, RDF or HTML. Every BibSonomy page presenting publications provides an "export" button with which you can export the specific collections.
• Citation formatting help: BibSonomy offers scrapers and citation input masks to help you correctly manage your citation metadata.
• Use FolkRank to sort sources, tags and users according to their relevance for your purpose. Using this, you can also find related tags and user groups that share your interest.
• You can show your publications on your website using BibSonomy. To help others to refer to your texts you can publish your metadata in different formats like BibTeX or RDF. We have already done so for content management page Zope and we offer help for other systems. See Gerd Stumme's page as an example.

BibSonomy for teachers

Reading lists with BibSonomy

Online Reading lists can be created and modified easily with BibSonomy. If you want to have the plists printed on paper, just use the export facilities provided at BibSonomy pages presenting publications.

Classrooms as literature groups

BibSonomy supports group management. Create a group to explicitly collect and share literature with your students.

RSS feeds in the Moodle e-learning environment

Some classes use Moodle as an e-learning environment. Here is an example how to integrate RSS feeds of BibSonomy into Moodle.

RSS feeds and tag clouds on the classroom homepage

You can present BibSonomy's latest bookmarks and the tag cloud of your group on your web site. We have done this for the content management system Zope, and can provide support for other systems.

BibSonomy in digital libraries

We have an extra page for digital libraries showing how BibSonomy can support digital library users.