Shared Bibliographies as Hypertext

The creation, management and dissemination of bibliographic information is a common task for almost all people working in a research environment, and it also is a (often weak) way of knowledge management. Current tools and methods are either centered on the process of document preparation using bibliographic references, or on the aspect of creating annotations and/or relationships describing bibliographic resources. As a result, bibliography management in many cases is still carried out with fairly simple tools and methods, and with little or no support for sharing the information. In the ShaRef project, the areas of document preparation, knowledge management, and information sharing among workgroup members are treated as equally important. As a result, ShaRef enables users to create, manage, and disseminate bibliographic information in a wide variety of use cases.