Published in Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2008 (JCDL08), June 16, 2008, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Published in Scientometrics Vol. 71, No. 2. (May, 2007)

Starting point for lists created by WorldCat users around particular topics

My overall impression is that the proliferation of tools for creating and sharing citations is a good thing — we’re edging toward an online experience that genuinely supports research, teaching and learning. At least for now, the service environment seems woefully fragmented — I can find relevant content easily, but citing it and sharing it requires a little more time than I’m prepared to spend. I’m curious to know how many WorldCat users are also Zotero users and CiteULike users and EndNote users.

Of course, lists built with most citation management services can be exported and moved around in a number of standard formats (RIS, BibTeX) — but in a world where research data, services and social practices are moving onto the network, one might wish for a better solution. A solution that would enable students and researchers (and people like me) to create and exchange references and citations for the full range of information objects that we use, support context-aware resolution and delivery services, and allow references to be decoupled from the environment in which they were created and reintegrated into other work products. I want my references to free-associate with “others like this” in ways that will enhance and enrich my discovery experience. I want my references and citations (and yours) to rise to the surface and make themselves known.

The University's Department of Computer Science and Engineering (GroupLens research group), and the University Libraries have partnered to research the use of citations, personal bibliographies, and metadata to synthesize recommender systems library services users. To date, our research has focused on the resolvability of bibliographic references collected by researchers, the incentives and risks relating to the disclosure personally-collected citation data, privacy implications of recommendation systems, and prototype design for a tune-able recommender system that uses citation data.

builds citations of work for users-FREE

abstract; full article available with subscription; explains Autonomous Citation Indexing