Feature of the Week: Customizable Publication Exports
Many of you may already be using the export facilities for publication entries that BibSonomy offers; until recently, there were options to export your BibTeX as RSS, RDF, Endnote, or one particular plain HTML format.
Now we've revamped the export facilities by including the export layout engine from the great JabRef stand-alone BibTeX manager. Clicking on the more button next to the publication column header will take you to a list of publication output formats that are now available—right now there are 17! These include an RTF export for standard text processors such as Word, CSV which is easily imported to spreadsheets, as well as fancy HTML tables with sorting capabilities that you can integrate right into you web site.
Here are some examples:
If there is still a layout missing that you need for your particular application, you can make your own! The JabRef documentation describes how custom export filters can be written using a special markup language.
Once you've written your filter, you can upload three files: the piece of markup for formatting each entry, plus a custom header and footer; thus, you can get a complete, valid HTML page with your custom publication list out of BibSonomy which can directly be linked to without further processing.
The URL scheme for these layouts is as follows:
e.g. if I want to format my own publications of 2006 with the html filter:
See also Mark Schenk's page for some great examples of JabRef layouts.
Have fun!
Christoph
Now we've revamped the export facilities by including the export layout engine from the great JabRef stand-alone BibTeX manager. Clicking on the more button next to the publication column header will take you to a list of publication output formats that are now available—right now there are 17! These include an RTF export for standard text processors such as Word, CSV which is easily imported to spreadsheets, as well as fancy HTML tables with sorting capabilities that you can integrate right into you web site.
Here are some examples:
If there is still a layout missing that you need for your particular application, you can make your own! The JabRef documentation describes how custom export filters can be written using a special markup language.
Once you've written your filter, you can upload three files: the piece of markup for formatting each entry, plus a custom header and footer; thus, you can get a complete, valid HTML page with your custom publication list out of BibSonomy which can directly be linked to without further processing.
The URL scheme for these layouts is as follows:
http://www.bibsonomy.org/layout/[filter]/[rest of BibSonomy URL]e.g. if I want to format my own publications of 2006 with the html filter:
http://www.bibsonomy.org/layout/html/user/schmitz/myown+2006See also Mark Schenk's page for some great examples of JabRef layouts.
Have fun!
Christoph
Labels: bibtex, export, featureoftheweek, fow, jabref
posted by Christoph Schmitz at 09:32
6 Comments:
Das ist wirklich sehr hilfreich. Habe das mal ausprobiert und hier gepostet. Danke für Eure Arbeit!
this is real sweet. but, if I may, I'd like to suggest:
1. add the 'more' link (or the whole button bar?) on the basket and on the top of the publication detail page. Typically I need to export a specific list or a single reference.
2. 17 is impressive, as are the formats themselves. however, the two I need most often are missing - short and long harvard style. ie. (A & B, 2007) and Alice, A. and Bob, B (2007), journal of alicism and bobism, etc.
- could you add some popular formats? could I choose a 'default'? can I share custom filters and copy filters from other users?
thanks,
- Yishay
Yishay,
The RTF export is in harvard style (I guess the long version). We can add more export formats.
Further you can upload your own style via your settings page.
Hope this helps.
Andreas
Yishay,
1. Thanks for pointing us to this missing feature! We have added the "more" link to the basket now and will add it to the resource page soon.
2. Sharing/copying users layouts is not implemented and probably never will be due to security considerations. But if you have written a special layout which you would like to be added to the global layout list - let us know.
Hi,
This is a great feature of Bibsonomy compared to other sites. I tried to do my own layout but I'm unable to display the comment/description field, e.g. \begin{description}foobar\end{description} will never display foobar, even if the paper has a description. Could you please make this field visible to the layout script so that we can show the papers' descriptions? Thanks!
Dear Michel,
Thanks, this is a good suggestion! We've included the description in the set of supported fields. It is now possible to include it with \description (or \begin{description}\end{description}, resp.).
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