

Might even ask for contributions from outside while you are at it. Conclusion: Docear is basically a knowledge base software which lets you organize your academic data, references, and general ideas in the form of mind maps. If it grows enough, or as a side product of the work, publish it on the webpage of the group. If you ask everybody who reads a paper/document to add a short (3-5 lines) summary/abstract (they'll have to write one anyway for "state of the art"), a URL or other pointer where to find the document, you create an (at least locally) very valuable resource. Docear: An Academic Literature Suite for Searching, Organizing and Creating. Publish guidelines, enforce them, perhaps occasionally organize a refer-thon to clean up entries and fill out missing details. C&C 17: Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and. To run a software written in Java, you need to install the free Java. Have everybody chip in by adding references to interesting papers found while browsing, whatever they cite in their publications/theses, and perhaps keep another file with publications generated locally (comes handy when asked for "publications of the group last year" or so). Java is the programming language in which Docear (and many other programs) is written in. The reference panel lists your references in a table, similar to other. In creating such a system, the cost of the software and the expense of running the server(s) to host the data is microscopic compared to the expense of the army of knowledgeable people checking out references, cleaning up the barely legal (and semantically often complete nonsense) BibTeX entries offered by some journals, knit them up from scratch where not even the above is available.īetter create your central database, share it with your research group. To run a software written in Java, you need to install the free Java Runtime. Docear (dog-ear) is an academic literature suite integrating everything you need to search, organize and create academic literature into a single application.
