BibSonomy is a social bookmarking and publication-sharing system. It aims to integrate the features of bookmarking systems as well as team-oriented publication management. BibSonomy offers users the ability to store and organize their

bookmarks A bookmark is used to keep one's place in a printed work. It can also refer to: * Bookmark (digital), a pointer in a web browser and other software * ''Bookmarks'' (album) by Five for Fighting * ''Bookmarks'' (magazine), an American literary ma ...

and publication entries and supports the integration of different communities and people by offering a social platform for literature exchange. Both bookmarks and publication entries can be tagged to help structure and re-find information. As the descriptive terms can be freely chosen, the assignment of tags from different users creates a spontaneous, uncontrolled vocabulary: a

folksonomy Folksonomy is a classification system in which end users apply public tags to online items, typically to make those items easier for themselves or others to find later. Over time, this can give rise to a classification system based on those tags ...

. In BibSonomy, the folksonomy evolves from the participation of research groups, learning communities and individual users, organizing their information needs. Publication posts in BibSonomy are stored in the BibTeX format. Export in other formats such as EndNote or

HTML The HyperText Markup Language or HTML is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser. It can be assisted by technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and scripting languages such as JavaScri ...

(e. g. for publication list creation) is possible. The service was developed by a team of students and scientists from the Institute of Knowledge and Data Engineering, the DMIR group at the

University of Würzburg The Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg (also referred to as the University of Würzburg, in German ''Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg'') is a public research university in Würzburg, Germany. The University of Würzburg is one of ...

and the L3S Learning Lab Lower Saxony in

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and is mainly hosted by the University of Kassel. , the source code of BibSonomy is available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. , the source code of the BibSonomy web application is available under the

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References

* Robert Jäschke, Andreas Hotho, Christoph Schmitz and Gerd Stumme
Analysis of the Publication Sharing Behaviour in BibSonomy
Proceedings of the Conceptual Structures: Knowledge Architectures for Smart Applications, Springer, 2006 * Dominik Benz, Andreas Hotho, Robert Jäschke, Beate Krause, Folke Mitzlaff, Christoph Schmitz, and Gerd Stumme
The Social Bookmark and Publication Management System BibSonomy
''The VLDB Journal'' 19(6):849-875, 2010.

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BibTeX Library 2.0 Social bookmarking Reference management software {{socialnetwork-stub Social bookmarking websites Social software

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