bibliograph-info — Announcements about new releases, general questions

[Bibliograph-info] More plugins, a Docker image: Bibliograph v2.1 is out!

[Christian B. <in...@bi...>]

<https://panyasan.wordpress.com/2015/07/21/more-plugins-a-docker-image-bibliograph-v2-1-is-out/>

I am very happy to announce the release of Bibliograph 2.1, the first
public release of the software. Bibliograph has been used in production
since version 2.0, but was never polished enough for broader consumption.
Now I think it is, particularly since this release comes with very
comfortable installation options.

The major features of the release are:

   - Four new plugins
   <https://github.com/cboulanger/bibliograph/blob/master/plugins.md>
   - A Docker image
   <https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/cboulanger/bibliograph/>

Release notes are here
<https://github.com/cboulanger/bibliograph/blob/master/release-notes.md>.
For more information, download and installation instructions, visit

http://www.bibliograph.org

Please ask any question you might have here or on the Project’s User Forum
<http:/forum.bibliograph.org>. Bug reports and feature requests are best
entered on the project’s GitHub page
<https://github.com/cboulanger/bibliograph>.

[Bibliograph-info] Bibliograph 2.1-RC1 released

[Boulanger C. <in...@bi...>]

Hello,

it has been a long time since you last heard from the Bibliograph project (4 years, to be exact). The application has been used in production successfully at the Humboldt University in Berlin, but I have never found the time to prepare a public release. Given that browsers have changed dramatically over the  last few years, the software has held up pretty well, but it was time to give the code base an overhaul. You have probably moved on to new things, but maybe the application is still of interest to you. 

I have just released a first Release candidate of version 2.1
Demo installation: http://demo.bibliograph.org
Documentation: http://www.bibliograph.org
Download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/bibliograph/files/latest/download
Readme: https://github.com/cboulanger/bibliograph/blob/master/readme.md
Release notes: https://github.com/cboulanger/bibliograph/blob/master/release-notes.md
I’d be thrilled if you were still interested in the project and like to help finalizing the v2.1 release by trying out the release candidate and giving feedback. 
Best,
Christian

[Bibliograph-info] Bibliograph is back!

[Christian B. <c.b...@qx...>]

Hello everybody,

it has been a while that you heard from the Bibliograph project. Version 1.0
is long ago and ran only with PHP4, which is a no-go for most server
environments. It took me a long time to update the program, but after I got
some funding from my university, I could do some more work on it, and now,
 Bibliograph is back and 2.0 is almost done!

As you hopefully (positively) remember, Bibliograph is a tool for the
collaborative management of bibliographic data, mainly for use in
universities. You can enter, edit, import and export bibliographic
references, view them in different formats, and manage them by sorting them
in thematic folders, etc. What sets it apart from desktop programs of the
same sort is the collaborative, multi-user approach, and from other
web-based applications, its truly "ajaxy" feel thanks to the qooxdoo
framework.

Here's a demo installation of a current snapshot, if you want to play
around:

http://quit.rewi.hu-berlin.de/bibliograph-dev/build/

You can log in by using the credentials "qooxdoo"/"qooxdoo" if you change
from http to https. The server certificate is self-signed, so it doesn't
work in Google Chrome, unfortunately.

I am currently working on the documentation, which is, however, currently
available only in German:

http://sites.google.com/a/qxtransformer.org/bibliograph/

But since it is on google sites, each page can be easily translated. The
docs are far from finished, however.

I would like to move into the Beta-Phase soon, but zillions of bugs still
need to get fixed and the app is still rough around the edges. My aim was to
make it as intuitively as possible (that's why it looks a bit Apple-like).

I would love to get feedback on the user experience (the server is decently
fast) and how you like the UI or what you would change. Thanks for any
comment you might have!

The application is still in pre-Beta since it has not been prepared for use
outside the current environment. If anyone is interested in the pioneering
effort downloading and installing it (you'll have to use SVN for now), I'd
be happy to help out. But be warned: it probably won't be an easy ride and
lots of changes are forthcoming. Of course, there is also paid support, if
you need it.

Cheers,
Christian

[Bibliograph-info] Bibliograph 0.98.1 released

[Christian B. (B. Development) <in...@bi...>]

Hello,

I wanted to inform you that you can find a new release of Bibliograph 
(0.98.1) at

http://www.bibliograph.org/download

It  features a complete redesign of the folder tree, finally the support 
of Microsoft Internet Explorer, and an alternative user interface for 
older browsers. You can try it live at

http://www.bibliograph.org/demo/

or on your own server. As usual, I am grateful for bug reports and 
suggestions, which now can be reported from the application itself (menu 
help / report bug).

Bibliograph is in use at the "The Online Bibliography on Organized Crime 
<http://orgcrim.panya.de>" which has been generously funding part of the 
development. If you are interested in having your own installation on an 
especially configured vserver, please look at my offer at 
http://www.bibliograph.org/hosting/. <http://www.bibliograph.org/hosting/>

With this release, regular development will pause for a while. The 
project urgently needs co-developers because I don't have enough time to 
do all the necessary coding. If you know of anybody who does PHP / 
JavaScript software development and might be interested in collaborating 
in this project, please let me know. I will continue to fix bugs and 
implement some of the ideas I have, but need to turn my mind to other 
things.

Best regards,

Christian Boulanger

P.S. If you haven't joined the email-list yet, you are welcome to at 
http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=80602

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[Bibliograph-info] Bibliograph: wew tree widget & Microsoft Internet Explorer support

[Christian B. (B. Development) <in...@bi...>]

Hello,

I have uploaded a new version to the demo installation with two major 
enhancements:

- a new tree widget with moveable nodes and a trash can
- initial microsoft internet explorer support

There is no released version yet, since there are a zillion of bugs left 
to correct that I have already found, and many more that are left to be 
discovered. If you are looking for a stable production release of the 
program, this is not for you... ;-)

 You can download a snapshot as usual at

http://www.panya.de/cgi-bin/bibliograph_snapshot

and try out the installation at

http://panya.de/zophe2

I would be interested in feedback on the changes and of course about 
buggy behaviour. There is plenty in the internet explorer - send 
screenshots if possible.

Marco Danscheid has been adding German documentation accessible through 
the question mark button. If anyone would be willing to help 
contributing English language documentation, that would be great - I 
would sponsor a free bibliograph installation on my server...

Thanks for your interest in Bibliograph...

Christian Boulanger

Christian Boulanger (Bibliograph Development) wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Happy new year! After more than a month of bug fixing and improvement, 
> Bibliograph version 0.9.8 has been released. You can download it at
>
> http://www.bibliograph.org/download
>
> Most work had to go to details, including the installation process, 
> the configuration GUI, and a collaboratively editable help system.
>
> I hope that now the application runs quite stable and installs well - 
> I would be happy if you could try it out - live at
>
> http://www.bibliograph.org/demo/
>
> or on your own server. The major limitation remains that I haven't 
> found time yet to make it work for Internet Explorer, but this will 
> happen as soon as possible.
>
> As usual and hardly surprising, I am grateful for bug reports and 
> suggestions.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Christian Boulanger
>
> P.S. If you haven't joined the email-list yet, you are welcome to at 
> http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=80602
>

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[Bibliograph-info] Accidentially send

[Marco D. <dan...@we...>]

Dear subscribers of bibliograph-info,

please excuse for the last mail. I´ve accidentially chosen the wrong 
address.

Bye,

Marco

[Bibliograph-info] Bugs

[Marco D. <dan...@we...>]

Hallo Christian,

> - Die Infotexte zu den Buttons poppen nicht mehr auf, wenn man mit der 
> Maus darüber fährt.
>
Das funktioniert jetzt wieder.

> - Die Idee mit dem Drop-down-Menü ist super, aber es funktioniert 
> leider nicht. Bei mir erscheint immer nur "no options loaded", wenn 
> ich auf den Drop-down-button klicke.
>
> - Der Index-Button rechts daneben funktioniert auch nicht mehr. Die 
> Fehlermeldung:
>
> Error: __form__.populateComboBox is not a function
> Source File: 
> http://www.panya.de/zophe2/index.php?/products/bibliograph/modules/reference/reference?action=new&datasource=bib5&folderId=7 
>
> Line: 7


> bitte cache löschen, das sollte das problem lösen... das javascript 
> file hat sich geändert, aber dein browser hat sich das alte gemerkt


Hier hat das Cache löschen nichts gebracht. Wenn man den 
drop-down-button betätigt steht da weiterhin nur "no options loaded", 
wenn man dann den index-button rechts daneben anklickt, verschwindet 
dieser im Nirwana und dann funktioniert auch das drop-down-Menü. Ist das 
so geplant? Es wäre schön, wenn das drop-down-Menü so funktionieren 
würde, wie in der Suche: Wenn man ein paar Buchstaben eingeben hat, 
werden einem gleich die möglichen Entsprechungen in der einer 
drop-down-Liste angezeigt.


> - Ich würde vorschlagen, die Schriftfelder mit einem Drop-down-Menü 
> auch weiß zu machen. An Hand der drop-down-buttons erkennt man ja die 
> Sonderfunktion. Wenn sie aber grau sind, hat man das Gefühl, dass man 
> da nichts rein schreiben könnte.


> das ist ein problem: nWidgets kann entweder alles selbst mit einem 
> design versehen oder nichts. wenn ich das design für dieses ding 
> wegnehme, dann sieht alles mistig aus und ich muss für alle 
> einzelheiten ein css entwerfen. das kann ich später machen, aber im 
> moment muss ich es erst einmal dabei belassen... das ist zur zeit zu 
> viel arbeit. mir gefällt es auch nicht. und es lässt sich auch nicht 
> per css überschreiben., ausser ich pfusche direkt im source code von 
> nwidgets rum.

Das ist wohl alles andere als ein schwerer Bug, also verschieben - klar.

> - eben wollte ich eine neue Datenbank für einen Freund anlegen, damit 
> er Bibliograph auch auf Herz und Nieren prüfen kann und dann kam 
> folgende Fehlermeldung:
>
> das heißt, es gibt "bib6" schon. nimm einfach einen anderen kurznamen 
> (wie "sven")

Jetzt hat es geklappt. Ich dachte "bib6" würde automatisch vergeben.

Gruß,

Marco

Re: [Bibliograph-info] Bibliograph 0.9.8 PR1 released

[Christian B. (B. Development) <bib...@15...>]

Hello,

of course, the PR1 release had a couple of major bugs, the most 
important being that the plugin system was broken. This is fixed in PR2 
which you can find on the website

http://www.bibliograph.org/download/

Best, Christian

Christian Boulanger (Bibliograph Development) wrote:

>
>  Bibliograph 0.9.8 PR1 released
>
> The first of hopefully not too many preview releases of the 0.9.8 
> version of bibliograph is out.
>
> Please download and test the code 
> <http://www.bibliograph.org/download/bibliograph_0-9-8-PR1.zip> or 
> visit the "development demo 
> <http://www.bibliograph.org/demo/index_html>", and let me know what 
> isn't working, so that we'll soon have a stable 0.9.8 version.
>
> This version has the following *new features*:
>
>    * added configuration system with own GUI and data backend,
>      allowing  customization of
>          o citation styles: now individually configurable, with import
>            / export of styles
>          o bibtex citation key
>          o table columns
>          o fields of reference types
>          o site properties (title, keywords, start message)
>    * partial redesign of table and bibliography output
>    * context menu is now on the right mouse button (can be customized)
>    * lots of changes under the hood
>
> The 0.9.8.x versions will add features, so if there is something you 
> are missing, please let me know now. Starting with 0.9.9, I will 
> concentrate exclusively on bug fixes, browser compatibility and 
> installation issues.
>
> Please use this email list to write about enhancements and changes 
> that you'd like to see implemented. I have very limited time for this 
> project, so it would be good for me to make a list of priorities that 
> I will try to work in before I reach 0.9.9, and ideally you as users 
> should decide what is most important. Also, let me hear about user 
> friendlyness of the interface - if the buttons are on the right spot, 
> if the menus make sense, etc...
>
> Best, Christian
>
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[Bibliograph-info] Bibliograph 0.9.8 PR1 released

[Christian B. (B. Development) <bib...@15...>]

  Bibliograph 0.9.8 PR1 released

The first of hopefully not too many preview releases of the 0.9.8 
version of bibliograph is out.

Please download and test the code 
<http://www.bibliograph.org/download/bibliograph_0-9-8-PR1.zip> or visit 
the "development demo <http://www.bibliograph.org/demo/index_html>", and 
let me know what isn't working, so that we'll soon have a stable 0.9.8 
version.

This version has the following *new features*:

    * added configuration system with own GUI and data backend,
      allowing  customization of
          o citation styles: now individually configurable, with import
            / export of styles
          o bibtex citation key
          o table columns
          o fields of reference types
          o site properties (title, keywords, start message)
    * partial redesign of table and bibliography output
    * context menu is now on the right mouse button (can be customized)
    * lots of changes under the hood

The 0.9.8.x versions will add features, so if there is something you are 
missing, please let me know now. Starting with 0.9.9, I will concentrate 
exclusively on bug fixes, browser compatibility and installation issues.

Please use this email list to write about enhancements and changes that 
you'd like to see implemented. I have very limited time for this 
project, so it would be good for me to make a list of priorities that I 
will try to work in before I reach 0.9.9, and ideally you as users 
should decide what is most important. Also, let me hear about user 
friendlyness of the interface - if the buttons are on the right spot, if 
the menus make sense, etc...

Best, Christian 

[Bibliograph-info] New Release 0-9-7-10

[Christian B. (B. Development) <bib...@15...>]

Hello,

I wanted to inform you about a new release of Bibliograph. You can get 
it at

http://bibliograph.panya.de/download/

0.9.7.10 (19.10.2004)
- work on the reference module: added custom fields, modularized tabs; 
not completely finished.
- support for auto-loading of classes and properties
- reworked access control to make it application-specific. Still wierd.
- added native PHP BibTeX export GUI
- updated folder2bibtex to assign suffixes a-z, aa-zz for citkeys which 
would
  otherwise be identical. needs a better solution, though.
- collection now has "author" instead of "editor"
- folder tree displays number of references and subfolders contained in 
a folder
- folders containing elements can now be deleted. ToDo: contained 
subfolders also
  need to be deleted and references unlinked!
- fixed bug preventing address and subtitle from being saved

I tried to fix most of the bugs reported on the website. This is the 
complete package which contains changes all over, not a patch.  Please 
backup your old "zophe" directory in case the new package doesn't work 
for you, delete it, and unzip this file.

The major problem at the moment seems to be getting it running in 
"normal" hosting environment - please report your experiences. This code 
has only been tested on: Win2000 / Apache 2.0 / PHP 4.3.8 / MySql 3.x & 
RedHat Linux 9.0 / Apache 2.0 / PHP 4.3.5 / MySql 3.x.

As allways, please report bugs & suggestions on http://www.bibliograph.org .

Thank you for your interest in Bibliograph,

Christian Boulanger