Improved group functionality added: now it is possible to get an aggregated view on the group members content via /group/* pages. Additionally, the tag filter is now case insensitive and you can jump to the page for the first filtered tag by just pressing return; broken bibtex URLs are now repaired on the fly and not in the database.
Today we added some more functionality for groups. On the group page you can now see all users which are in the group. This behaviour can be controlled by the group admin on the settings page. Furthermore the group admin can now remove users from a group -- all posts of the removed user which were viewable for the group members become automatically "private". So nothings gets lost. We also enhanced prev/next navigation and added a counter to the search page.
Today we migrated BibSonomy to a new server to increase hardware redundancy. Furthermore we incorporated the following updates:
* Changing the tags of a post with one of the tag edit functions (e.g., basket or edit tags) does not change the date of the post any longer. Hence, changing tags of posts does not cause them to arise in the post list.
* If you have forgotten your password you have now the option to recover it by filling out a reminder form.
* Resource pages (e.g., like this one) now have a tag cloud, too.
On 12th April 2007 it is BibSonomy's birthday :-) Two years of design, development and the contribution of its users have enhanced the system constantly. In order to show BibSonomy's features and support users starting to work with the system, we have changed our help-websites.
Sometimes I want to have some means of structuring my tag cloud. For example, I tag a lot of researchers' home pages with their last names as tag. So I want to have all these last names together in one spot.
OpenURL aims to solve this 'appropriate copy' problem by providing a link to a copy of a work the user has a valid subscription to or to an open access version. BibSonomy allows to redirect requests to an OpenURL resolver chosen from the user. You can include the address of your resolver in the OpenURL field at your "settings" page.
The update we released today includes scrapers for the ACM Digital Library and Citeseer. More Scrapers will follow and smaller ones are already included. If you have suggestions for scrapers or already implementations (see last post) we would be pleased to know so.
Additionally we improved the tag editing through the edit link which now appears on every page which shows bookmarks or publications. Since it now also appears on pages which contain resources not owned by you (and therefore you're of course not allowed to change their tags), the page for tag editing shows only the resources which you own. A nice drawback is that now also the download page has an edit link.
Many of you may already be using the export facilities for publication entries that BibSonomy offers; until recently, there were options to export your BibTeX as RSS, RDF, Endnote, or one particular plain HTML format.
As most of BibSonomy's retrieval features can be accessed via a specific URL structure, the built-in keyword replacement mechanism of Mozilla Firefox provides an elegant mechanism for this purpose.
Some weeks ago we improved and unified the settings for the tag cloud. If you have JavaScript enabled you see now above your tag cloud the options for sorting (Which could be either by frequency (i.e., how often you used a tag) or alphabetically.), layout (You can choose between a cloud or a list.), and minimal frequency (Allows you to show only tags which you used at least that often.).
Our update today has introduced some nice new features: better handling of friends functionality and a possibility to change the tags of several bookmarks or BibTeX entries in a batch.
On the page /friends you see all posts which are set "viewable for friends" of users which declared you as their friend. Furthermore you see all your friends, can add ore remove them and you see users which declared you as their friend. More on this is written on the help page. Don't hesitate to ask, if you have questions on this.
Thanks to the suggestion of one of our users we have added an easy way to edit tags of several posts at once. Just click on the "edit" link between the "next" and "previous" links on your myBibSonomy page. Then you can edit all tags of the posts (bookmarks or publications) you've seen on the page. As this also works for your tag pages, you can now complete all your imported BibTeX entries which still have the tag "imported".
Last weeks update included the following changes:
The /download page is now called /basket ...
Joining existing groups is now much easier ...
We added a check for commas in tags ...
And last but not least we want to thank the Universitäts und Stadtbibliothek Köln for adding a link to BibSonomy to there Kölner UniversitätsGesamtkatalog ...
At the moment it is possible to select a BibTeX entry on a web page and via pressing the postPublication button inserting it into BibSonomy. The next feature we will release next week allows to extract references from ACM or Citeseer without selecting a BibTeX entry. What we can already provide today is an interface for Scrapers and some helper classes which allow you to implement scrapers for other services. If you are interested in developing a BibSonomy-compliant scraper which we can include into the project, have a look into this JAR-file which contains the source code for the needed classes: scraper-0.1.jar.
Todays feature of the week post will point you to one of the hidden features of the system. As most of you certainly know one way to acquire the meta data of a publication is to use the screen scraping facility of BibSonomy.
Recently, the interface was improved by adding new javascript functionality: when you enter a publication, only the required and optional fields corresponding to the publication type are shown.