Wednesday, September 30, 2009

ForeCiteNote

I've come to know about TiddlyWiki 3 years ago, when I first began my final year project. I was recommended to use TiddlyWiki as a tool to keep track of my working progress. One of the main advantanges of TiddlyWiki is its portability. Since it's a single HTML file, you can email it, put it on a web server or share it via a USB stick. Besides, users can customize the appearance as well as the behaviour of TiddlyWiki to almost any degree you want.

Back then I thought this tool is quite useful, that's all that was. I didn't know that I'd have to actually modify TiddlyWiki some day. That day started when I began to work on ForeCiteNote (FCN). FCN is a personal digital library system built on top of TiddlyWiki by our research group WING. FCN aims to support beginning researchers, such as advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students, take notes and synthesize their ideas in their literature search for related work to their projects. FCN supports following features:

  • Create a note that links to a paper,automatically retrieve metadata for that paper from server, allowing access to PDF file, with keywords/references extracted from the paper
  • Organize notes by tagging and assigning what actions to take
  • Ingest PDFs, BIBs or ZIPs of papers
  • Synchronize your notes with server
  • Publish your notes as public or keep them private
  • Locally organize a user's local document storage


Following is a short demonstration of FCN:


5 comments:

Rouge said...
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Rouge said...

http://www.laas.fr/~hnchu/blog.html

Why I can't edit the content (by double clicking the item) ?

Emma said...

@Rouge: I don't know what you did actually, but I guess you downloaded the empty html file from TiddlyWiki and put in on your server. Since TiddlyWiki is a client-side application, to modify it, you have to open it as a file in your computer. There are Server-side solutions as well, check out the following link

http://tiddlywiki.org/wiki/Server-Side_Solutions

Emma said...

Btw, Rouge why don't you try ForeCiteNote ;;), and give me some feedbacks about it :D.

Hiro said...

Hey, this is a serious blog, ok? Don't try to wink wink at me like that, hmm hmm
(j/k)