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A blue social bookmark and publication sharing system.

Glossary#

This glossary explains terms used all over BibSonomy and the help pages.

Basket#

is a page where you can manage publication posts you picked.

BibTeX#

is a popular bibliography management tool. BibTeX uses a style-independent text-based file format for lists of bibliography items, such as articles, books, theses. BibTeX bibliography file names usually end in .bib. Below you can find a typical example of a BibTeX-file: 
@inproceedings{jaeschke07tagKdml,
  author = {Robert Jäschke and Leandro Marinho and Andreas Hotho and Lars Schmidt-Thieme and Gerd Stumme},
  booktitle = {Workshop Proceedings of Lernen - Wissensentdeckung - Adaptivität (LWA 2007)},
  editor = {Alexander Hinneburg},
  pages = {13-20},
  publisher = {Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg},
  title = {Tag Recommendations in Folksonomies},
  url = {http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/hotho/pub/2007/kdml_recommender_final.pdf},
  year = {2007},
  isbn = {978-3-86010-907-6},
}

Bookmark#

is the stored location of a website. You can store bookmarks in your browser or in BibSonomy. The advantage of BibSonomy is that you can access it from anywhere worldwide, no matter which computer you are using.

DOI#

is a system for identifying content objects in the digital environment. Here you can find further information about DOI scraping.

EndNote#

is an output in RIS which is used by EndNote, another bibliography management tool. You can find further information here.

Entry types#

are used to classify BibTeX entries according to their type. Currently, BibSonomy supports the following 12 types of publications:
  • article (a short entry representing an article from a journal or magazine)
  • book (a longer entry representing a book with an explicit publisher)
  • booklet (a work that is printed and bound, but without a named publisher or sponsoring institution)
  • inbook (a part of a book, which may be a chapter and/or a range of pages)
  • incollection (a part of a book with its own title)
  • inproceedings (an article in the proceedings of a conference)
  • mastersthesis (an entry representing a Master's thesis)
  • misc (a entry type used when nothing else seems appropriate)
  • phdthesis (a PhD thesis)
  • proceedings (the proceedings of a conference)
  • techreport (a report published by a school or other institution, usually numbered within a series)
  • unpublished (a document with an author and title, but not formally published)

Group#

is an association of users that shares contents. You can post entries that are only visible for the group and you can keep an overview over the posted entries of the group members. You can create a group for a research project or a college class or any other group of people that want to share their bookmarks and publication entries with each other.

JabRef#

is an open source bibliography reference manager based (like BibSonomy) on the BibTeX-format. Starting with version 2.4b1, JabRef can be extended using a plugin system based on the Java Plugin Framework (JPF). You can find further information here.

JSON-feed#

is a JavaScript data structure written in a compact text-based format for representing simple data structures and associative arrays. You can find further information here.

Moodle#

is a popular e-learning environment. BibSonomy can enhance course descriptions and e-learning projects by providing the corresponding literature. You can find further information here.

OpenID#

is an open, decentralized standard which allows users to log onto many different services on the web using the same identity identification (single sign-on). You can find further information here.

Plugin#

is a computer program that interacts with a host application (e.g. a web browser or an email client) to provide a certain, usually very specific, function "on demand". You can find further information here.

Post#

is an entry of a bookmark or publication saved in BibSonomy. To post means to save a bookmark or publication in BibSonomy.

Publication#

is the information of a published book or article. That information usually includes author, title, year and place of publication. Depending on the publication you might want to add other information like publishing house, editor, school, etc.

You can set the type of publication like article or book.

Relations#

are connections that exist between two related tags. You can define relations of your tags on your myRelations page. You can relate several subordinate tags to a superordinate tag.

Your relations are visible on your myBibSonomy page, right-hand side. Make sure to click on show all. See for an example /user/beate

If you search for the superordinate tag, all entries tagged with the subordinate tags will appear as well. For example: if you relate ubuntu to linux and you search for linux, all entries tagged with ubuntu show up as well.

RSS-feed#

is an RSS document written in a web feed format used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format. You can find further information here.

Scraper#

searches a webpage for publication data.

Sphere#

is a individual grouping of users into "spheres of interest". This allows you to follow recent activities of certain groups of interest separately. The corresponding help page explains, how to organise users you are interested in into spheres.

SystemTags#

are special tags that come with a predefined meaning. At present BibSonomy offers three types of system tags which are explained in more detail here.

Tag#

is a key word which defines an entry more closely.

The tags describe the entry and allow the users to find it via search. You can add as many tags as you like to your entry. The more specific are the tags, the sooner the post can be found by searching.

To search in BibSonomy, you should enter one or more tags. The system will show all entries tagged with these key terms.

You can enter tags when posting the entry and you can edit them later. You can also change tags of several posts.

The tags you have entered for your entries show up on your myBibSonomy page right hand side. When you have used a tag very often, it will appear larger than the other tags.

WordPress#

is a free and open source blog publishing application and Content Management System. You can find further information here.

XWiki#

is a Wiki software package which allows the creation of applications within the Wiki interface. You can find further information here.
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