Feature of the Week

Extend your publication entries by adding a .pdf/ps file and a private note

Besides assigning tags to your BibTex entry with BibSonomy, you can extend your entries by uploading a local copy of publication as .pdf or .ps document. In addition, you can assign some private notes, which are only visible for you. This notes can contain some personal thoughts like “this paper is important for my research” or a short summary about the content. For example: You just posted the following publication: “Network Properties of Folksonomies” and would like to extend your entry with a local copy as .pdf or .ps file. You just simply click on the title and get the following options (see figure at the top). Try it and have fun, Miranda!

Feature of the Week: File-Upload

One of the main advantages of organizing references in BibSonomy is the online availability of your collection. To facilitate your scientific workflow BibSonomy allows not only the storage of a publication's bibliographic data but also to attach a document - e. g., a private copy of the paper or your own personal notes - to your post.
Our last release included a general overhaul of this file upload feature.
It is now possible to store several documents with the same publication. Further, you can now upload your files either

• directly during posting or while editing a post (click edit and then details to edit a post)

• or on the posts details page (simply click on the title of one of your posts to get there).

To retrieve your documents go to the post's details page. Posts that have documents attached are marked with the document symbol on your myBibSonomy page. By clicking on the symbol you can download the first of your documents.

Note, that (mainly due to Copyright reasons) the uploaded documents are private. That is, they are available only to you and to the members of the groups that you have joined.

Feature of the week: Supported Filetypes

Some months ago, Stephan presented BibSonomy's enhanced file upload feature which allows you to attach documents to your publication meta data - such as, e.g., a private copy of the paper or your own personal notes. In response to your feedback, we extended the list of supported file types which now encompasses the following file types:

• pdf for the Portable Document Format
• ps for PostScript files
• djv, djvu for scanned documents in the DjVu file format
• txt for plain text files
• doc, docx for Microsoft Word documents
• ppt, pptx for PowerPoint presentations
• xls, xlsx for Excel spreadsheets
• ods, odt, odp for documents, spreadsheets and presentations in the OpenDocument format

Please let us know, if your favourite file format is not supported.
Once again: Happy Tagging!
.folke

Feature of the Week: Document Previews

If you are regularly attaching PDF documents to your publication posts you have probably already seen it: since quite a while BibSonomy renders a preview image for each uploaded document. A large version is shown whenever you hover with the mouse over a link to the document. For one selected document of each post a small preview is also shown in in the post lists of your personal pages, as can be seen in the following screenshot of my publication posts:

The previews on the one hand help you to quickly identify papers where you remember the cover page but not their exact title and on the other hand give you a first glimpse at the document. If you upload the cover photos of books (you can get them, e.g., from WorldCat), you can quickly distinguish books from other types of publications, as their covers are often colorful and diverse from, e.g., journal articles. A click on the small preview image opens the corresponding document.
Originally, we implemented this feature upon request of a computer imaging group for which it was important to upload the images of their documents and quickly access previews of them in BibSonomy.


If you haven't uploaded a document for your post, yet, a default icon is shown in the post lists instead of the preview. A click on that icon ...

... immediately opens a file upload dialog where you can upload a document:

And that's it: you can now download the document whenever and wherever you want. The preview is not shown immediately since it needs some time until it is rendered. Typically, this should take no more than 15 minutes.

Happy uploading!