* Support of complex tag queries: Up to now, we did not answer tag queries with 10 or more tags for performance reasons. With this release, this has changed, now also larger numbers of tags can be queried. For the techies: We've solved the performance issue using Lucene in the background
* CSL via REST-API: Since our last release, we're offering a new export format for publications, namely formatted according to the Citation Style Language. This format is now also available via our API by appending the parameter ?format=csl
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.
* The Hidden SystemTag: A tag that is visible only to you: sys:hidden:<mySecretTag>
* OpenID Quicklinks: We added the three most frequently used OpenID providers as links to our sign-in page.
With some delay, today we upgraded BibSonomy to 2.0.16. We also updated our publicly available libraries at our Maven repository.
We are happy to announce, that this release includes the first version of a new major feature: Discussions and Reviews. We'll go into detail about that in our next blog post. But take a look at the stars you'll now find at the bottom right of every post and the new discussion link under each post.
Furthermore, new are:
* two new hidden system-tags: sys:unfiled and sys:jabRef:
* the extended functionality of the URL-parameter sortPage (sorting bookmarks is now possible)
* more allowed file types for your private document upload.
The next release is scheduled for July 27th.
Today we updated the running version of BibSonomy to 2.0.15. We also updated our publicly available libraries at our Maven repository. The new release mainly contains various small bug fixes and a great deal of internal clean-up. As we are continuing our efforts to increase speed we restructured and compressed all JavaScript content of the website.
The main visible improvements are:
* An overhaul of the handling and display of dates, for example the way a publications date is displayed in post lists.
* New options for the URL-paramter sortPage. By adding "?sortPage=note" to a BibSonomy URL you can order the displayed posts by their note. Other new options for sortPage are "day" and "month".
In this release we also included a lot of preparations for new features that are currently being developed and will be included in one of the next releases. Stay tuned!
The next release (2.0.16) is scheduled for June 29th. If you have any feedback or comments regarding our new release, we'd be happy to hear from you!
Today was the monthly release of BibSonomy. Next to small fixes, this release includes several efficiency improvements e
* an overhaul of several pages reducing the amount of data and
* a compression (gzip) of all content BibSonomy sends to your browser.
With the new release we also introduce two new features that we will discuss in greater detail in the upcoming "Feature of the week" posts.
* BibSonomy goes mobile: We added a new design specifically for browsers on mobile devices (like smart phones or tablets). The new scheme reduces the amount of information on a page, emphasising the core informations of each page and making BibSonomy fun to use even on small displays.
* BibSonomy now has experimental support for content negotiation using the HTTP "Accept" header. Depending on the value of the header, the client is redirected to a view with the specific content-type. Supported formats are "application/rdf+xml", "text/csv", "application/json", and "text/x-bibtex".
As always, get back to us with any kind of feedback and enjoy the new features.
Wir sind Studenten der Universität Kassel und wir essen jetzt seit rund fünf Jahren in der Mensa an der Ing. Schule. Leider hat die Qualität und die Quantität des Essens kontinuierlich abgenommen und so haben wir es uns mit diesem Blog zur Aufgabe gemacht über die Missstände zu berichten und aufzuklären.
Wenn Ihr auch unerfreuliche Erfahrungen mit den Mensa-Essen gemacht habt, sagt es uns, schickt und Bilder die wir für euch veröffentlichen.
We are very content about having such an active and dedicated user base and thank everyone who has let us know of their opinion and has provided helpful hints and recommendations.
Today we introduce a small new feature which will hopefully be useful for you as our user. In one of the last releases we introduced the new system tag sys:title:tag.
Two important aspects of working with literature are the process of sharing it among your colleagues and the exchange of ideas and thoughts about it. Facilitating the first aspect - sharing - has always been a core feature of BibSonomy. However, this weeks blog post is all about the second aspect: Discussion!
As of the last release there are some small changes in the sidebar, namely in the section where you find the references to other tag-related pages. You may already know that there are links to both tag pages and concept pages, for all users and for the requested user/group or logged-in user, respectively.
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.
Lately, we've been working hard to improve BibSonomy's social features. With the recent release we introduced another unique feature that was not announced until now. Following the intuition that secrets are always shared among best friends, our idea is to connect you to people who have the same login password for BibSonomy as you.
This is an outstanding feature that other social networking sites lack up to now - usually, you only get buddies recommended by some black-box algorithm. Our solution is more targeted towards the idea that great minds think alike, and hence choose the same password.
So if you have the same password as other users in BibSonomy, you'll see them in the sidebar in the new "your password buddies" section:
Just have a look at your personal page to get to know your possible new buddies.
Please note that it is possible that some of your password buddies have another password than you because of the possible hash collisions of the MD5 algorithm. Unfortunately we can not solve this issue because we don't store the plain text password, but we are working on an extension of the MD5 algorithm that produces no collisions.
Happy secret sharing!
Your BibSonomy team
BibSonomy provides an API (Application Programming Interface) which other software programs can use to access the services and resources provided by BibSonomy. It is build on the REST (Representational State Transfer) architecture style and enables programs to post data (for example creating a new user), read data (for example getting the publications or tags of a user), updating or deleting data (for example one's own entries).
Recently, a new parameter for reading a user's tags was added. The parameter enables an alphabetical or frequency-based ordering of tags.
In the past weeks we were busy implementing BibSonomy's new look we announced in December. In this post we present a preview of the new layout you will experience from the next week on.
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