![]() ![]() Whenever you select a PDF in your mind-map and chose “Create or Update reference”, the following new dialog appears. The new Docear 1.1 (preview) is able to extract the title of a PDF and fetch appropriate metadata from Google Scholar. Thanks to all the generous donors, our student Christoph could work on an improved PDF metadata retrieval for Docear, and today it’s time to present the first preview. There are four main categories in the workspace panel (left). This is how the new workspace panel would look like after you freshly installed Docear and sorted a few PDFs including annotations (click the image to enlarge it). Please let us know in the comments if you like our ideas, and how we could make the concept even better. In the following, we would like to introduce our ideas for the new workspace concept and some other changes and we ask you for your feedback. We believe it to be more intuitive, and more similar to the concepts you know from other reference managers. Therefore, we spent the last weeks with a lot of brainstorming and discussions, and we came up with a new concept. We are aware of this problem and we would like to fix it. This is mainly caused by the workspace concept which is not very intuitive. However, we have to admit that Docear is still not as user friendly as we would like it to be. In the past years, Docear evolved to a powerful software for managing literature and references. If Docear does not have enough data to decide about your interests, this part remains empty. several buttons below the text box reflecting search terms you might be interested in.you need to enable the recommendation service in Docear.Īfter opening the search page, you will see Since both the recommender system and the personalized search engine make use of your mind maps. You can access the search feature from Docear’s ribbon bar (“Search and Filter > Documents > Online search”) or by double-clicking the “Online search” entry in Docear’s workspace panel. Her knowledge about the inner mechanics and her ideas on the the search engine were essential for the implementation and the research part of the project. Kapitsaki’s has already supported us in our work on Docear’s recommender system in July 2013. Georgia Kapitsaki at the University of Cyprus (UCY) in Nicosia for a full month to work on this idea. I am very grateful to Keystone, who supported me in visiting Dr. While this is helpful and might point you to papers relevant for your general research goals, you will sometimes have to find information on a specific topic and hence search directly.īased on our knowledge about recommender systems and some user requests, we decided to implement a direct search feature on our digital library. To find out which papers you might be interested in, the recommender system parses your mind maps and compares them to our digital library with currently about 1.8 million academic articles. If you are using LibreOffice, you will only have an entry in the menu.Īs you may know, Docear features a recommender system for academic literature. If you are using OpenOffice, you will have a Docear entry in the menu and in the tool bar (see screenshot below). After the installation, you should restart Libre/OpenOffice. This should open an installation dialog, and you need to confirm all messages in the dialog. To do so, download the add-on, store it on your hard drive, and open the downloaded file with LibreOffice or OpenOffice. The freelancer sent me a demo version that you can try out. However, I suggest you get an idea of the add-on yourself. Personally, I have some doubts that the final add-on will meet the quality expectations I have, and that probably most Docear users have. However, I have to point out that my satisfaction with the current progress and outcomes are not overwhelming. So, most likely he will finish the add-on some day – maybe in 2 months, maybe in 6 months, maybe in a year. The freelancer is still working on the add-on. The question arises, how to proceed? We see the following options: In addition, we are still missing a significant amount of donations to fully pay the developer ($1,000 are missing). Well, that estimate wasn’t quite precise – the developer hasn’t finished even an alpha version yet. Originally, we estimated that it would take about 2 months before the work was completed, or at least a decent demo version was ready to released. More than half a year ago, we started a call for donation to pay a freelancer who wanted to develop an add-on for LibreOffice and OpenOffice, comparable to Docear4Word. ![]()
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