The Web-Based Bibliographic Information System “BibIS”

Bibliographic information is required and important in many application areas and for many different tasks. For example, students write reports, master theses, and PhD dissertations. Researchers write journal articles, conference papers, workshop papers, and books. Managers write sales reports and market analysis studies. All these tasks have in common that they contain bibliographic references, which we will call bibtags, to some technical literature and that these references have to be managed in a consistent and reliable manner. The main goal of this project is to apply database technology to solve this problem. The result is supposed to be a web-based bibliographic information system named BibIS. The handling of bibliographic references includes tasks like acquiring, storing, retrieving, changing, and searching bibliographic data as well as user management, project management, transformation of biographical data into different output formats, and thematic category organization. Further, as a very important extension, a PDF version of each publication (called bibliographic reference file) that is specified by a bibliographic reference is supposed to be stored in BibIS. This enables the user to view the publication on the screen, to print it out, and to send it by email to others.