Visual Analysis in Reference Management Software

Abstract

This paper deals with representation of scientific references’ data and visual analysis of this data using web based scientific reference management software. The Reference application, is a web based reference management software, that enables easy administration and management of authors and scientific references. Similar web based reference management systems additionally support advanced tools for data visualization and exploration but the downside of this solutions is that they require installation of additional plugins due to the fact that visualization within the web browsers requires advanced graphics capabilities thus limiting the usability of these applications. The Reference application on the other hand introduces a solution for data visualization and exploration that relies on extensive usage of the latest HTML5 web standard featuring support for rich graphic intensive web applications hence forcing maximum usability and compatibility with the modern web browsers. This paper describes the visualization tool within Reference application, its implementation and functionalities.

One Approach for Eliminating Commutative Pairs of Elements in Web Applications

“…For example, visual analysis of different combinations in social networks with dense communities may be a potential problem, as it is known that social networks are globally sparse and locally dense. Similar problem can be found in WordNet 5 , where visualization of relationships between any two words who has "IS-A" type of relationship or visualization of relationships between synonyms and many others imposes drawing of two arrows in order to present all relationships. Keeping in mind that graphical representation of two words in WordNet always contains one pair of arrows, we can then relate them via only one line with relationship description at both sides creating thus clear visualization between them.…”

“…Data visualization is often preferred over tables or text elements since it allows visitors to process data faster and gain deeper understanding of data and relationship between them [5]. Interaction visualization techniques such as 2D/3D displays, icon-based displays, dense pixel displays, geometrically transformed displays, allow users to interact directly with a visualization enabling thus relation and combination of different elements in order to provide more information about elements [6].…”

Scientific References Import From Unstructured Data

“…Reference application architecture (see Fig.1.) is a three-layered architecture consisted of: user interface, application logic layer and data layer [2]. There are three types of users graduated by the level of control over the application: visitor, author and administrator.…”

“…Researchers and teaching staff at the Faculty of Electronic Engineering of the University of Niš, have been using collaborative reference management software -Reference, since 2008. It started as a student project, but it grew into a complex software that provides collaborative reference management, easy generation of references' list, search of publications, visual analysis of references, export of references into common formats, export using predefined and custom styles, and import of references [2,3].…”