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As a social bookmark and publication sharing system, most of BibSonomy's content is user generated and as the number of users using the system is increasing, also the amount of information available increases. Consequently more and more topics of interest come into the system and accordingly the user has to somehow focus on relevant entries. One approach for focussing on relevant resources is to just look at entries of users which are relevant for you. But interests are diverse and accordingly the set of relevant users distributes over the set of interests.

As announced earlier, we changed the format of person names for author and editor fields in publication posts from First Last to Last, First in the last release. Since this has quite some implications, I would like to discuss the changes a bit more in detail in this feature of the week.

The Summer break is officially over and thus we have just released BibSonomy 2.0.18. At our Maven repository you'll find the publicly available libraries. As announced earlier by Robert, the name handling has been changed to always storing names as "last name, first name". Further, this release introduces: * an autocomplete for the inbox systemTag "send", * an autocomplete for the detailed information fields during publication posting, * an easy means to normalize your BibTeX keys, * another supported filetype for the document upload: .tex, * and scraping-support for publication posting from INSPIRE β and Taylor & Francis Online. As always, we'll go into detail in our "Feature of the Week" blog post series.

This week's feature of the week is something for our more experienced users but I guess that applies to many Emacs users anyway. ;-) For all of you that write their LaTeX files using GNU Emacs I present a small script that simplifies its interaction with BibSonomy.