Any opinions on BibSonomy?
Any regular users of BibSonomy around? Del.icio.us totally works for me as a bookmark manager, and BibSonomy is similar, and now I wonder if I should use it to manage the papers I’m reading. I’m looking for opinions, what works well, what doesn’t?
Maybe I should install Semantic MediaWiki instead and manage my notes in there?
October 15th, 2006 at 10:11 pm
You might give Zotero a try.
October 16th, 2006 at 1:08 am
I use it daily. Mostly for its Bibtex capabilities and tagging. I haven’t tried the RDF stuff yet but SWRC is supported. It lacks robust screenscraping (e.g. ACM), but they have a DBLP feed you can copy from, and if you have a bibtex snippet that works perfectly. Best of all it seems to be a fairly active and responsive group working on it.
October 16th, 2006 at 12:13 pm
You should use it - everybody should use it, because then the desired network effects would kick in. I get the impression it hasn’t yet gathered the critical user mass necessary for the emergence of “wisdom of crowds”. But I hope that it will develop eventually, until then the added value when compared to desktop tools like BibDesk is marginal.
October 16th, 2006 at 2:28 pm
Didn’t know BibSonomy, I may take a look, thanks for the entry. You may also be interrested by http://www.citeulike.org which does the same. A feature i like and that i think bibsonomy miss is the possibility to post a copy of the pdf/ps to the site, so you can access it from everywhere.
October 16th, 2006 at 9:44 pm
I prefer bibsonomy to connotea and citeulike because of the content - it is more computer science related, more tags are available and more interesting papers. However, it is often a bit strange loading all my papers on their server - are there any copyright problems when submitting IEEE papers or something similar? On the other hand, it’s great to have everything available on the web- I used to work with JabRef using a custom export, grouping and my own webserver - now it is much more convenient.
October 17th, 2006 at 11:21 pm
Gunnar is using Bibsonomy. I have an account. We use it for some professional stuff in Nepomuk (managing Bibtex in a group).
For bookmarks, its also nice.
You would install semantic mediawiki on this server at dowhatimean.net or on your desktop? (if its desktop, I know this system that…)
October 23rd, 2006 at 11:12 am
As I’m one of the BibSonomy team I will not make too much advertisement for the system. I will only point you to some new stuff which is related to the comments. First we started with the development of screen scrapers. Currently we support ACM, CiteSeer, http://arxiv.org/, and the library of the University of Karlsruhe. We will add more supported sites in the future. We are now working on a new/extented version of the system which will include a rest api. Via this api the JabRef tool will be connected. A prototype of the api and JabRef is up but I can not tell you any date when we can release it. Any feedback is very welcome.