BibSonomy

My research is focused around our social bookmark and publication sharing system BibSonomy. The system is online since 2006, together with Andreas Hotho I am leading the development and operation of BibSonomy since 2009. If you are interested in cooperation or have questions, don’t hesitate to contact me ().

This page collects useful information for everybody interested in BibSonomy. The page is work in progress and will be changed frequently.

Quick links: news & contact · research · development · documentation · demos & add-ons

news & contact #

The most important source of information is our blog where we announce and explain new releases and features. We try to release a new version of BibSonomy every month (on the Wednesday before the last Thursday of the month) and in the subsequent weeks describe new features in our feature of the week post series.
You can also follow us on Twitter (@BibSonomyCrew or #bibsonomy) and become a member of our Google+ community.
In addition, there are mailing lists for German and English speaking users.

research #

resources #

Every six months we release a snapshot of all public posts in BibSonomy which you can get from the data sets page.
Data from BibSonomy was used in the ECML PKDD Discovery Challenges 2008 and 2009 in classification and tag recommendation tasks (lessons learnt).
There are some BibSonomy-related publications of the KDE group, in particular the article The Social Bookmark and Publication Management System BibSonomy.
Publications that have used the BibSonomy dataset can be found by the Google Scholar search “BibSonomy dataset”.

projects #

PUMA - Akademisches Publikationsmanagement #

DFG, 2009-2014
project page
running system at the University Library Kassel

Info 2.0 - Informationelle Selbstbestimmung im Web 2.0 #

DFG, 2009-2011, 2013-2014
project page

EU STREP, 2006-2009
project page

development #

BibSonomy is a Java-based web application, backed-up by a MySQL database and Apache Lucene for fulltext search.

We use Bitbucket as development infrastructure, the development wiki as well as the source code can be found there.
Some parts of the source code of BibSonomy are released in a public Maven2 repository at dev.bibsonomy.org.
Please use the BibSonomy issue tracker to report bugs and request new features.
The API documentation is rather outdated but still describes the basic functionality. Newer features, like synchronization, are not described, yet. For that have a look at the classes in the package org.bibsonomy.model.logic in the bibsonomy-model module and use their implementation in the REST client. You can also have a look at these Java code samples. Users of other programming languages can also have a look at the REST client to see which URLs are called.
Recently, we opened a public mercurial repository on Bitbucket. The source code for some helpful tools will be published there. They also demonstrate how to use BibSonomy’s REST API. The BibSonomy Bitbucket account further contains the BibSonomy post filter and a (yet to be finished) Python REST client for the BibSonomy API.

documentation #

BibSonomy has help pages in English and German but most of the functionality is described in our feature of the week series in the blog which I highly recommend to read.

The system has also been described in the article The Social Bookmark and Publication Management System BibSonomy and in my dissertation.

demos & add-ons #

SIMILE Exhibit can be used to render JSON data from BibSonomy, see the source code of the following demos: Timeline, and TileView, Search, and Cloud.
BibSonomy offers many export formats that can be used to dynamically integrate content into web pages (e.g., using iframes). In particular, the embed format provides the posts in the same layout as in BibSonomy but without any navigation elements. See my homepage for an example which embeds my publication list into an iframe:

<iframe src="http://www.bibsonomy.org/user/jaeschke/myown?items=1000&amp;resourcetype=publication&amp;sortPage=year&amp;sortPageOrder=desc&amp;format=embed" width="100%" height="400" name="my publications" style="border:none;"/>

add-ons #

For Firefox we have a simple add-on that adds the “post bookmark” and “post publication buttons to your toolbar (BibSonomy buttons add-on) and a more sophisticated but no longer maintained add-on that synchronizes your Firefox bookmarks with BibSonomy (BibSonomy add-on).
The Chrome add-on adds the “post bookmark” and “post publication buttons to your toolbar.
There are two extensions for Typo3: a new one that uses the Citation Style Language (CSL) for rendering (BibSonomy CSL) and an older one that lets BibSonomy render the posts (BibSonomy Extension).
WordPress
The TeXlipse BibSonomy extension allows you to synchronize your BibTeX entries in TeXlipse with BibSonomy.
The JabRef plugin for BibSonomy lets you synchronize your publications in JabRef with BibSonomy.
How to integrate BibSonomy with GNU Emacs and RefTeX is described in this blog post.

tools #

The BibSonomy tools repository hosts the following tools:

The DocumentDownloader lets you download all documents from your user account (a restriction by tag(s) is possible).
The UrlListScraper reads a list of URLs and tries to gather publication metadata from them using BibSonomy’s screen scrapers.