Product Name: BibNotes

Description

From http://plone.org/products/bibnotes

BibNotes is a simple annotation system for use with CMFBibliographyAT. It provides an "annotation" tab on annotation entries for per-user annotations to bibliography entries, a simple reading list and rating system, and a nice search interface. It should cope nicely with large bibliography databases.

BibNotes is a prototype extension package for CMFBibliographyAT, which adds personal annotations to bibliography entries, and a search option for the bibliography listing. It is meant for use in a research institute, a laboratory, or a teaching environment, to help members of a research community sift through a large volume of bibliography listings. It was also written by a hobbyist in a couple of weeks, which is probably enough to say by way of warning to the community at large.

This product adds two items to the user interface of CMFBibliographyAT. First, users will find an annotate tab above individual bibliography entries (including those for which they have no editing privileges).

Second, the listing of bibliography entries returned by the site-wide bibliography tab is decorated with a fancy search box, and a set of icons that look like miniature Venn diagrams:

When BibNotes is uninstalled, the search box, annotate tab and icons will disappear, but any annotations made by users will be preserved, inside a bibnotes_data tool object at the top of the Plone instance. When the BibNotes product is reinstalled, these user annotations will again become visible.

Notes are personal to each user, with a limit of one note per user per bibliography entry. There is no provision for discussion, reply, or nesting of notes; they are intended to serve as private, one-off, unintrusive annotations that are easy to return to in the course of research work.

The annotate tab opens a simple form for recording a note on the target entry. In addition, there is a Reading list tick-box above the area for the note, and a Recommend tick-box below it. The former is used to flag items of interest that the user wants to pursue in future reading. The latter is used to indicate that a source is particularly worth reading. While the Reading list toggle and comment are private to the individual user, data from Recommend selections is used in some of the search options offered by BibNotes.

The product's principal developers include:

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Dependencies (i.e., other products required)

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Status of Evaluation

Pending