The reviews of various kinds of services implemented to facilitate the management of references share several common features such as the basic manipulation, import and export of BibTeX entries. These existing systems do benefit researchers, scientists and academic writers. Unfortunately these tools do not provide a more in-depth archive of BibTeX entries for multiple documents. It is because usually documents require incorporating different sets of BibTeX entries and users may want to keep track of references being used for a particular published paper. Moreover it would be neater to categorize BibTeX entries into groups accordingly to research areas, especially when researcher’s collection of references does cover a wide range of topics. Researcher may accidentally add in duplicated BibTeX entries into his own collection. For such cases, problems arise due to references update anomaly and the whole collection of bibliographic data will be in a mess.
JabRef does provide a wide range of BibTeX management features but this may create complexity for novice users. Also, JabRef enforces strict rules on the BibTeX fields, while users may prefer more flexibility in this feature. JabRef and Bibi operate on BibTeX files which means that users have to maintain multiple BibTeX files for multiple LaTeX documents respectively. However, it will be more efficient to store BibTeX entries into a database. Grouping of BibTeX only required storing the indexes of BibTeX entries. Application with integrated database allows user to dynamically create groups of BibTeX entries and export any particular group when required. Online reference management service allows users to retrieve their BibTeX entries easily as long as they have access to the Internet. However, a local BibTeX management tool is still valuable for users when there is no Internet access, such as traveling on a plane or probably when the writer is located in a rural area.
This project intends to develop a personal library system to provide more useful features which explicitly solve researcher’s encountered problem with BibTeX entries. Personal library aims to give researchers a simple direct tool with good user interface to manage their BibTeX entries and mechanism to detect and resolve duplicated BibTeX entries. Personal library stores BibTeX entries into a lightweight database which is more robust and efficient as compared to BibTeX file storage. Personal library allows researcher to categorize his references into groups and thus a structural approach to manage references. With the new generation of Web 2.0 concept, a Bibliography web portal is encouraged to be developed for further enhancements to the personal library system. The personal library system integrates with Bibliography web portal to provide greater flexibility for end-users. For example, users can choose to work with or without Internet access, and they have the choice to partially share their collection of references by uploading into the Bibliography web portal. When user is outside his work place, he can still retrieve his references through public computer which has Internet access. Researcher can synchronized his local copy of BibTeX entries to the remote database and also serve as an indirect references backup mechanism. Bibliography web portal supports the sharing of references, research information and paper-reviews. With both Personal library and Bibliography web portal, a more enriching user experience and better control of bibliographic data can be achieved.
JabRef does provide a wide range of BibTeX management features but this may create complexity for novice users. Also, JabRef enforces strict rules on the BibTeX fields, while users may prefer more flexibility in this feature. JabRef and Bibi operate on BibTeX files which means that users have to maintain multiple BibTeX files for multiple LaTeX documents respectively. However, it will be more efficient to store BibTeX entries into a database. Grouping of BibTeX only required storing the indexes of BibTeX entries. Application with integrated database allows user to dynamically create groups of BibTeX entries and export any particular group when required. Online reference management service allows users to retrieve their BibTeX entries easily as long as they have access to the Internet. However, a local BibTeX management tool is still valuable for users when there is no Internet access, such as traveling on a plane or probably when the writer is located in a rural area.
This project intends to develop a personal library system to provide more useful features which explicitly solve researcher’s encountered problem with BibTeX entries. Personal library aims to give researchers a simple direct tool with good user interface to manage their BibTeX entries and mechanism to detect and resolve duplicated BibTeX entries. Personal library stores BibTeX entries into a lightweight database which is more robust and efficient as compared to BibTeX file storage. Personal library allows researcher to categorize his references into groups and thus a structural approach to manage references. With the new generation of Web 2.0 concept, a Bibliography web portal is encouraged to be developed for further enhancements to the personal library system. The personal library system integrates with Bibliography web portal to provide greater flexibility for end-users. For example, users can choose to work with or without Internet access, and they have the choice to partially share their collection of references by uploading into the Bibliography web portal. When user is outside his work place, he can still retrieve his references through public computer which has Internet access. Researcher can synchronized his local copy of BibTeX entries to the remote database and also serve as an indirect references backup mechanism. Bibliography web portal supports the sharing of references, research information and paper-reviews. With both Personal library and Bibliography web portal, a more enriching user experience and better control of bibliographic data can be achieved.
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