Bebop - BibTeX publisher

Bebop requires a web server with a Java runtime(version >= 1.5) and PHP5 (with xml and xsl modules). To check the PHP requirements, create a phpinfo.php file on your server with the following content and view it on your browser. You should check that xml and xsl modules exist and are enabled. In major Linux distributions, you can get these modules by installing php-xml and/or php-xsl packages via the package manager.

<?php
phpinfo();
?>

For the proper viewing of publications, the client is required to have a Javascript enabled web browser (e.g. Firefox, Opera, Safari, IE, Chrome).

Bebop is platform independent. However the installation steps below apply to Unix-based machines.

• Unzip the tar.gz file in your web server. One way of doing this is as follows:

cd ~/public_html
wget https://github.com/golkentli/bebop/tarball/master --output-document=bebop.tar.gz
tar xvf bebop.tar.gz
mv golkentli-bebop-xxx bebop
cd bebop

(Now you are in the Bebop home directory)

• Create a user.conf.inc.php file by copying bebop.conf.inc.php file.

cp bebop.conf.inc.php user.conf.inc.php

• Modify the mandatory and optional parameters in user.conf.inc.php file.
• Modify the JAVA_HOME variable in Makefile to point to your server's Java bin folder (e.g., /usr/bin, /opt/jdk1.6.0₁₃/jre/bin).
• Copy/create your bibtex.bib file inside the Bebop home folder. (an example bibtex.bib).
• Create bibtex.xml by issuing make

make

• If you want to use addpub.php to add publications via an online form, make sure that you secure access to addpub.php and uploadpub.php (e.g. using .htaccess file in Apache). If not, make sure that you delete these two files or change their permission properly (as not readable by the web server, e.g. chmod 400 addpub.php, chmod 400 uploadpub.php)
• That's all. Point your web browser to the URL of Bebop directory (e.g. http://yourdomain.com/bebop/index.php).

• Download: latest tar.gz
  

• New features
  
  • added searching capability in titles of the publications (code contributed by E. Kuthe).
  • added support for proper display of special (non-ASCII) characters. e.g. \"{u} is displayed as ü. (suggested by J. Pfister)
  • new menu_style configuration parameter that allows horizontal display of publication filters.
  • added show all to the by author menu that lists all the authors.

• Fixes
  
  • document type category Book/Book chapter is separated to Book chapter and Book
  • fixed improper handling of incollection BibTeX entry type.
  • enhancements with respect to better integration with users' existing webpages or 3rd party CMS.
  • added missing category images for patent and misc types.

• Download: bebop-1.1.tar.gz
  

• New features
  
  • allows uploading full text documents of publications on the Bebop server (suggested by F. Diehl).
  • displays total number of publications at any given page.

• Fixes
  
  • incorporates code from T. Durduran for generating year array given $START_YEAR as configuration parameter.
  • document type category Journal/Conference paper is separated to Journal article and InProceedings/Talk (suggested by T. Durduran).

• Upgrading from 1.0 to 1.1
  

  (backup your bebop folder)
  # mv bebop bebop-1.0
  (extract new version as the new bebop folder)
  # tar xvf bebop-1.1.tar.gz
  (Copy the customized files from previous version.)
  # cp bebop-1.0/bibtex.bib bebop/ 
  # cp bebop-1.0/Makefile bebop/
  # cp bebop-1.0/user.conf.inc.php bebop/
  # cp bebop-1.0/copyright.php bebop/
  (Create bibtex.xml)
  # cd bebop
  # make clean
  # make
  (check whether everything works, if so, remove previous version.)
  # rm -rf ../bebop-1.0
  

  Secure access to addpub.php and uploadpub.php as you previously did for addpub.php.

• Features
  
  • based on a single BibTeX file as database
  • listing by year, author, document type, keywords, research area
  • generation of keyword cloud (see an example)
  • displaying abstract, BibTeX and links to DOI, full text, slides, poster files
  • exporting to BibTeX
  • RSS feed of the publication list
  • unAPI support, zotero compatibility
  • adding new publications online (either by BibTeX code or by filling in specific fields)
  • better user experience with AJAX
  • permanent links to publications and categories