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Basic Bookcase Description

A scientific repository (articles, reports, data sets, videos...)

Basic Bookcase is a wizard-like application that manages your repository of scientific articles.

First, load the repository with articles (or any electronic document). Drag-and-drop the article and their citation information (in BibTeX format) in an Input Tray.

Wikipedia BibTeX

Then, search the repository by author, year, title, etc. Get a copy of the relevant articles. Then get list of references for Your Documents in different formats (BibTeX, APA, IEEE...)

Legal considerations. You can place your electronic copies in a repository without violating copyrights. If you place scanned versions of paper articles in the repository, and/or if you share your repository in a network, you should verify that there is no copyright violation.

Basic Bookcase is designed to speed-up the process of scientific publication, from finding scientific material to writing a manuscript. To do so:

1) A repository for immediate availability: this is not always the case with web resources (unsuccessful searches, servers or connections down). With a repository you don't need to repeat web searches and you can work offline.

2) Good quality citation information: correction and standardization of BibTeX files. The poor quality of citation information is a serious problem (whatever its origin: web, automatic extraction from document, manual transcription). Correcting citation errors takes time.

3) Efficient loading of information: drag-and-drop mechanism, faster than interactive screens. Plain text files for citation information and fault-tolerant parser, safer than automatic extraction from document.

The result? with practice, you may load around 40 documents / hour.

In a beta test (2200 documents) the worst case was 15 documents/hour (scanning of paper version + manual transcription of citation information); the best case was 70 documents/hour (electronic copy and citation information available).

Scope and features

Basic Bookcase is for multi-owners, multi-users medium-sized repositories.

Multi-owners.

Each copy of document has an owner (or is declared public domain). The default owner is the OS's login name.

Note. In V1 2010-04-15, this is mostly for traceability, there is no access restriction.

Mono or multi users. The repository can be on a private volume or shared in a local network.

For shared repository, the management of user profiles is automatic.

In case of concurrent access, 1st user is librarian (can update the bookcase), the others are plain users.

Small to medium repositories (several thousands of documents).

Not an absolute limitation, but processing is slower as the number of documents increases.

Example: catalog update = 2:05 minutes for 2200 documents (notebook Toshiba NB200, external USB Drive LaCie)

Any type of documents, from articles to videos and datasets.

The valid documents are identified by their extension; this list is configurable.

Documents can also be directories (unzipped or zipped)

Any (reasonable) size of documents.

There is no absolute limit. However, for large files, moving a document in and out the bookcase may be slow.

Standard BibTeX syntax + fault tolerance. Accepts incomplete syntax and abbreviations (e.g., vol 12 -> volume={12})

Normalization of fields.

Heuristics to correct common errors (e.g., confusion of fields)

Publications (journal, proceedings) and publishers are normalized from predefined lists

Predefined Lists of publications (journals) and Publishers More than

9000 journals and 100 scientific publishers.

Automatic backup of former versions of documents

In case of loading several times the same document.

Works also for collisions (2 documents have same category, 1st author, title and year)

Drag-and-drop loading mechanism, faster than interactive screens.

Multi-field search

: owner, category, author, year, keywords in title, journals.

Multiple-format lists of references.

BibTeX format, tab-separated (for spreadsheets) and r

eady-to-paste formats: IEEE-like, APA-like. Any number of user-configurable formats

Requirements

Windows XP and further, 25 Mb disk space.

No additional requirement.

Note. Basic Experimenter is written in Python but it contains a local installation, i.e., it is standalone.

Installation and uninstallation

Installation: unzip the download in any directory.

Uninstallation: delete the installation directory.

Basic Bookcase Limitations

Not for large repositories (> 10.000) No strict access control (based on documents' owner) No sophisticated web publication: just a plain HTML file to browse the repository and its catalog. No automatic search of information: find your information elsewhere and copy-paste it (no automatic web search, no automatic parsing of documents ..) No edition facilities: just copy-paste list of references in your manuscript (no reformatting of references and citations, no cross-verification, no external synchronization..)

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