Bibliographical References

docendo uses a data model simliar to BibTeX to store bibliographical references. Each reference is stored as a seperate resource to enable re-use in different sections and/or courses.

Screenshot: Bibliographical Reference Editor

Starting from the Resource Browser, select Bibliographical reference from the drop-down in the top-left New category and press the Create button. On the next page, choose the desired reference type - this will open the bibliographical reference editor (see screenshot to the right). Each reference type has a set of mandatory and optional fields.

The field Key may be left empty - it will automatically be assigned a value based on the given author(s) and year when saving.

Screenshot: Importing bibliographical references

If you already have bibliographical references in BibTeX format exported from other systems, you can import them by selecting Bibliographical reference from the drop-down in the top-left New category and pressing the Create button. From there you can upload a text file (please note, that the file suffix should be .txt in order to be accepted) with BibTeX content which will then be parsed. The found entries will be displayed prior to importing.

Please see the section below for sample content of a valid text file for import.

@inproceedings{	BSRS09,
	author = {Doreen B{\"o}hnstedt and Philipp Scholl and Christoph Rensing and Ralf Steinmetz},
	title = {Modeling Personal Knowledge Networks to Support Resource Based Learning},
	month = {Sep},
	year = {2009},
	publisher = {Verlag der Technischen Universit{\"a}t Graz, Austria, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia, and Know-Center, Austria},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies (I-KNOW'09)},
	pages = {309-316},
	url = {ftp://ftp.kom.tu-darmstadt.de/pub/papers/DB_i-know_2009.pdf},
}
@inproceedings{	BSR+09,
	author = {Doreen B{\"o}hnstedt and Philipp Scholl and Christoph Rensing and Ralf Steinmetz},
	title = {Collaborative Semantic Tagging of Web Resources on the Basis of Individual Knowledge Networks},
	month = {Jun},
	year = {2009},
	publisher = {Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of First and Seventeenth International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization UMAP 2009},
	number = {Vol. 5535},
	pages = {379-384},
	volume = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science  },
	url = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/h6846r20k71g1247/?p=5aa4691ffdff48de9eefcc16279cad6d\&pi=39}
}
@inproceedings{	SDB+09-2,
	author = {Philipp Scholl and Renato Dominguez Garcia and Doreen B{\"o}hnstedt and Christoph Rensing and Ralf Steinmetz},
	title = {Towards Language–Independent Web Genre Detection},
	month = {Apr},
	year = {2009},
	organization = {ACM},
	address = {Madrid, Spain},
	booktitle = {WWW '09: Proceedings of the 18th international conference on World wide web},
	pages = {1157--1158},
	url = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1526709.1526905 http://www.kom.tu-darmstadt.de/\"http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id}
}

Screenshot: Inserting a bibliogra-phical reference in the Section Editor

Bibliographical references can be added to content pages from within the Section Editor. The button (see screenshot to the right) opens a search dialog that lets you insert existing bibliographical references at the selected text cursor position. By default, the key of the reference will be inserted as text (highlighted in green with the bibliographical reference symbol next to it), but you may edit it to better suit the given context.

As soon as a section in a course contains a bibliographical reference, the course export function will generate a page at the end of the course containing all bibliographical references in the order of occurance. This page will also contain a link that when clicked will display all bibliographical references of the course in BibTeX format.

• Wikipedia on BibTeX
• BibTeX tutorial by Dana Jacobsen