PUMA (Academic Publication Management)
PUMA is a system for managing bookmarks (bookmarks) and sharing of publications . The abbreviation stands for "Academic Publication Management".
PUMA is based on the BibSonomy social bookmarking system and offers some additional functions. PUMA is designed in such a way that it can serve as the sole input portal for bibliographic metadata. In this way, researchers can not only use PUMA as an online reference management tool, but also publish their own publications on the document server of their university library or comparable institutions. These are then visible via search engines such as Google Scholar . Text files in formats such as Word , text or PDF can also be uploaded to the literature entries . Files with a maximum size of 50 megabytes can be saved per upload. With PUMA, users can easily share their data with others (collaborative system), which makes literature management interesting for use in teaching and for research groups. Reading lists can, for example, be displayed on your own homepage via a TYPO3 plug-in or shared as a URL in learning platforms such as Moodle . In Kassel there is an interface between PUMA and the research information system. The multiple input of bibliographic data for the administration of publication lists is no longer necessary.
compatibility
PUMA and BibSonomy are compatible with common literature management programs. The data can be exported in 30 formats. BibTeX and EndNote are used as standard exchange formats . PUMA can be researched as a database in the Citavi reference management system. In this way, your own and third-party data can be automatically loaded into Citavi.
development
The German Research Foundation (DFG) funded the web-based application PUMA from August 2009 to July 2011. The University Library of Kassel and the Knowledge Processing Department of the University of Kassel are involved in the cooperation project. After the end of the first project phase, the system was published as open source software. PUMA regularly benefits from the further development of the brother project BibSonomy. With every BibSonomy release, new functions are taken over in PUMA.
The second funding phase of the DFG (02/2013 to 01/2015) has been completed. For PUMA II, the DMIR group (Data Mining & Information Retrieval Group) from the University of Würzburg joined the PUMA team. As part of the second funding phase, cooperation with external systems was expanded, such as B. Integration of PUMA in the Discovery Service of the HeBIS network, which is based on the open source software Vufind . The result is a module that extends the watch list function so that the entries are automatically saved in PUMA and the contents of the watch list are fetched from PUMA.
distribution
PUMA is currently in full use , especially in the HeBIS network. The introduction of PUMA at the network libraries is linked to the introduction of the HeBIS Discovery Service, a Vufind version adapted for the HeBIS libraries . The Stuttgart University Library introduced PUMA in October 2015. Access to PUMA is restricted to the group of users of the respective university library.
See also
literature
- Dominik Benz, Andreas Hotho, Robert Jäschke, Gerd Stumme, Axel Halle, Angela Gerlach Sanches Lima, Helge Steenweg, and Sven Stefani. Academic Publication Management with PUMA - collect, organize and share publications. In: Proceedings of the European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries ECDL 2010, Vol. 6273 Berlin / Heidelberg: Springer (2010), p. 417-420.
- Stefan Drößler. Bibliographically with PUMA at the click of a mouse. The online portal for reference management at the Kassel University Library (PDF; 1.3 MB). HeBIScocktail, special edition for the German Librarians' Day 2011, p. 5 f.
Web links
- PUMA project homepage
- PUMA at the University of Kassel
- PUMA at the University of Stuttgart
- PUMA project description of the Kassel University Library
- List of social bookmarking systems (English)
- Knowledge processing department at the University of Kassel