Traditional searching and browsing functions for
bibliographic databases do no longer enable users to deal
efficiently with the rapidly growing number of scientific publications.
The main goal of our project
BibRelEx is to develop a new method
based on the visualization of content-based relations between documents such
as
cites,
succeeds,
improves with respect to,
and to use them for effective exploration. An additional insight into the
area concerned will result from aggregation of expert knowledge,
which complements the specialized knowledge represented in the
documents themselves. We are preparing to test this approach using
a bibliographic database in a specific area of computer science.
The BibRelEx project will provide tools for
- exploring and visualizing relations (like "cites", "precedes", "succeeds")
in scientific bibliographic databases,
- attaching private or public annotations to (related pairs of) documents,
- checking for consistency in bibliographic databases.
We start with the
geombib database in computational geometry.
Geombib is managed by
Bill Jones at the University of Saskatchewan, based on a community effort.
Our past activities were
- writing the tool BibConsist.
Given an entry, BibConsist checks if a similar entry already exists in the
database.
- entering missing entries and citation relations into the database,
- evaluation of visualization tools.
Currently, we are
- entering more entries and relations into the database,
- writing the tool BibManage. It allows to maintain three database files
containing
- the current version of geombib
- updates suggested by the user
- local references to be used in addition to geombib
under queries and periodic updates.
- writing the visualization component.
have a look at the future
At present, BibRelEx is run by
Britta Landgraf and
Rolf Klein,
University of Bonn, and
Anne Brueggemann-Klein,
Technische Universität München.
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