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About CoBib

Note: this is an alpha version!
Suggestions/comments/bug reports are very much welcome: ktrush [at] cs.duke.edu

Objectives

The goal of CoBib is to allow affinity groups to effectively collaborate to maximize the searching and browsing utility of an academic paper database. The CoBib system will facilitate the process of surveying literature in a specific field by using the community's annotations and referrals.

Viewing Citations

Each citation page provides a summary of the citation's fields, tags, and annotations. In addition to tagging, you can export the citation as BibTeX or EndNote, recommend the citation to particular users and/or research areas, modify the citation's fields to correct errors and/or provide more information, and write free-form annotations.

Home

The home page is where you will find your Mail Items, which is simply a summary of the citation reconciliation tasks, unseen citation recommendations, and unconfirmed citation authorships that you currently have. See the Profile and Bookshelf sections for more information.

Profile

Your profile is where information about yourself is listed; this information is not public. You can enter research areas that you are interested in to receive citation recommendations targeted towards those areas. Also shown here are citations in CoBib that you have authored. Those authorships that CoBib thinks belong to you will appear on your main profile tab after you have confirmed authorship in the confirmation tab.

Bookshelf

Your bookshelf is the place to organize your citations. The recommendations tab displays citations that were either explicitly recommended by other users or implicitly by CoBib to you and/or your research area. Unseen recommendations are highlighted, marking them as seen will remove the highlighting as well as that citation from your Mail items. Recommendations can be moved into your collections, which is your space to group citations with custom collection names. You can view each collection's BibTeX or Endnote text for easy exportation, as well as recommend collections to other users and research areas. The tasks tab holds citation reconciliation tasks for citations you have uploaded. CoBib attempts to determine whether two citations refer to the same record, and asks you to verify/combine citations that co-refer.

Actions

Your actions display a summary of the citation uploads, tags, annotations, and modifications that you have performed. These actions can be undone. Note that modifications can only be undone if you are the last user to have modified that particular citation.

Tags

The tags page allows you to search for citations that have been given a particular tag, as well as listing popular and recently used tags.

Search

The search page provides an interface to search for citations using a boolean combination of up to five predicates. Predicates currently involve author last names, a mixture of author first and last names, title keywords, venue keywords (e.g. journal title), and publication date.

Upload Citations

The upload page is where you can add your citations to CoBib. Current upload methods include a BibTeX or Endnote file, filling out form fields for various BibTeX types, or entering BibTeX or Endnote string in a textbox .