Bibliograph: Open Source Online Citation & Library Management

Bibliograph is a powerful open source web application for the collaborative collection, editing and publishing of bibliographic data.

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Bibliograph

• is an application that lets you collect, edit, and publish bibliographic data collaboratively on the web;

• has a modern and intuitive user interface that makes the daily life of working with bibliographies and library collections easy and fun;

• allows researchers, librarians, teachers and students work together online without having to install software locally;

• is fully open source and free to download, install, use and adapt to your particular need.

• is based on rock-solid libraries with a large developer communities (qooxdoo for the user interface and Yii2 for the backend).

Bibliograph can be used by

• scholars and librarians who want to publish a library collection or a thematic bibliography online;

• groups of researchers who work together in a research project and want to collect and share bibliographic references;

• professors and teachers who want to share bibliographic information with their students.

Features

• Organize bibliographic records in static folders or dynamic collections based on queries;

• Rich metadata, autocompletion and duplicate detection;

• Allows natural language queries like "title contains hamlet and author begins with shake";

• Fine-grained access control system with users, roles, groups and permissions allows flexible user management and control of who is allowed to view, enter, edit and delete data;

• Unlimited amount of separate databases;

• Imports data from library catalogues (through Z39.50 interface), from various file-based data formats (RIS, BibTeX, Endnote, MODS, and more), and from web services.

• LDAP integration to connect to existing LDAP servers;

• Ability to create and restore snapshot backups of individual databases;

• Easily extendable with custom plugins, for example to connect to other bibliographic databases (experimental support for Zotero is available)

Currently disabled features, can be reimplemented on demand:

• Formatting of bibliographic records with various citation styles (APA, Chicago, ...) using CSL templates and the citeproc style processor (http://citationstyles.org)

• Duplicate detection and display

Prerequisites, Installation and Deployment

See here.

Support

• Bugs and feature requests should be registered as github issues.

Development

• You can hack the code and make it better;

• If you wish to sponsor a feature, please contact info at bibliograph dot org.

How to contribute

Bibliograph is free (as in beer and in speech). But in order to thrive, the project needs your help. Even if you are not a developer, you can contribute:

• You can provide feedback, report bugs and/or suggest new features.

• Help translate the user interface into your language. Let me know if you are willing to do this, and I'll let you know how to do this.

• You can help spread the word. The more people use the application, the more likely it is that development continues and new features/plugins will be added - so please let your followers on Twitter, Facebook etc. know about Bibliograph

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Credits

Main Open Source libraries/applications

• qooxdoo JavaScript framework

• Yii2 Framework

• Codeception

Funding was provided by

• Department of Law, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Bibliograph is developed using

• PHPStorm (IDE)

• GitHub (Version control and code hosting) f In particular, the author wishes to thank:

• Gerrit Oldenburg (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin) for supporting and maintaining the software at Humboldt Universität.

• Serge Barysiuk for providing assistance with UI generation, and for designing the application logo;

• Julika Rosenstock for writing the first version of the end user documentation, Till Rathschlag and Anna Luetkefend for expanding and translating it.