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Problems to display citations since v3

Stéphane Dray 11 years ago updated by Christian Fritz 11 years ago 1

Hi,


Since bibbase v3, there is an extra comma or dot just before the year in the citations of articles (

see http://pbil.univ-lyon1.fr/members/dray/publications.php for an example). Moreover, the formatting has changed (fot size for journal name and volume, pages, year) but I have probably to correct my css file.


A last bug can be observed at http://pbil.univ-lyon1.fr/members/dray/talks.php : conference name is repated two times (in confname of confname). Perhaps this problem is more related to mendeley than bibbase? In my bibtex file (auto-generated by mendeley), the conference name appears only in 'booktitle' but it seems to appear twice in bibtex file hosted on mendeley.com (in 'series' and 'booktitle' fields).


Thanks for your work


Cheers

Answer
Christian Fritz 11 years ago

Hi Stephane,


Thanks for pointing out the glitch in the new rendering of article entries. This was easy to fix.


The second problem you pointed out, indeed seems to be an issue with the mendeley API. I've put a hack in place that just doesn't show the series entry if it is the same as booktitle. This seems to be a safe assumption and solves the problem for your case.


cheers,

Christian


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Fixed

parsing of url from mendeley does not consider multiple urls

Walter Karlen 10 years ago updated 10 years ago 2
Hi Christian
I discovered a subtle issue with the parsing of url that are retrieved through the mendeley api
If there are multiple urls stored with mendeley, bibase is creating a single url by concatenating the urls, rendering them unusable. Example :
http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0086427%20... for http://www.mendeley.com/c/6115948791/p/14667/garde...

Can I suggest to look for "http://" and either delete all entries after the first or make multiple links? Alternatively, I think mendeley stores them in  the url field of bibtex files separated by a space.

Thanks!
Answer
Christian Fritz 10 years ago
Thanks for reporting. This is fixed now. You may need to update your cache for it to show up (using the &nocache=1 link you got when creating your bibbase page, or by making a small change to your library and then reloading your bibbase page).

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Under review

Profile issue

Ashton Bradley 8 years ago updated by Yehia Abd Alrahman 4 years ago 4

I don't know if this is a bug, but the issue is about author name uniqueness (or lack thereof).


There is an issue with obtaining a "token" to link my publications on bibbase with my page. Bibbase has this to say: [http://bibbase.org/network/link]


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Linking Your BibBase Page to Your Account

You can "claim" your publications on BibBase by linking your account on bibbase.org to your publications page. To do so, we will provide you with a verification token that you need to add to your bibbase parameters on your web page. This is described in more detail below.

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However, the issue is that only one name is found matching mine, and it is not mine. So currently all displayed publications served up by bibbase have a link from my name to an entirely unrelated research group in a different field. How do I get bibbase to identify my name?


I think all of my publications are currently attributed to


http://bradleylab.wustl.edu/publications/


I would be grateful if either (a) my profile was deleted so there is no erroneous attribution, or (b) a new profile be added for my name.

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Hiding download count

Eunsuk Kang 10 years ago updated by Christian Fritz 10 years ago 1
Hello,

Is there an option to hide the download counts when using embedded BibBase?

Thank you! 
Answer
Christian Fritz 10 years ago
Yes, of course :-)
You can do that with CSS. Just put the following into your style definition.

.bibbase_stats_paper { display: none; }

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Fixed

is bibbase down right now?

Maximilian Held 10 years ago updated by Christian Fritz 8 years ago 1
Bibbase doesn't seem to allow sign-in with neither Google nor Linkedin -- and it also creates no bibliography. Used to work on the weekend.
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Completed

Better Support for Special Characters

Chris Cannon 11 years ago updated by Christian Fritz 11 years ago 1

This is a small feature request, but I'd like better support for special LaTeX characters. For example, if I have an author with the last name Pěchouček, I would enter this in the BibTeX file as P\v{e}chou\v{c}ek, which BibBase displays as Pvechouvcek. Ideally it would show as Pěchouček in the main list of publications, but then when I clicked on the BibTex file it would keep it as P\v{e}chou\v{c}ek so that users could properly copy and paste it into there BibTeX file.

Answer
Christian Fritz 11 years ago

Done!


Chris, thanks for your feedback! Please test this and see whether this is now working for you as expected. I've tested with a bibtex entry of Pěchouček and it worked fine, but please let me know if you find issues. I had to switch to a different bibtex parser, but I'm happy about the switch. It's much cleaner, and easier to extend. Special characters are now translated into HTML and should display fine on any browser and locale.


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Fixed

No Data and Python Error

Paul Danis 9 years ago updated 9 years ago 2
Great tool, but spontaneously produced 'no data' message on website after months of no problems.  I generated new zotero key then got the python error (below). No idea how to resolve so any suggestions are appreciated.  thanks.

Paul


Zotero

Choose the page you would like to use, copy the URL, and then follow the instructions on the Help page to set it up on your personal page.
BibBase page of entire library (which is using this bibtex file)
Collections

--> -->


<type 'exceptions.KeyError'> Python 2.7.5+: /usr/bin/python2.7
Mon Mar 30 14:38:29 2015

A problem occurred in a Python script. Here is the sequence of function calls leading up to the error, in the order they occurred.

/home/ubuntu/bibbase/cgi-bin/zotero/get.py in ()
153 pickle.dump(data, open(DIR+'keys/'+username, 'w'))
154
=> 155 respond(apiKey, userID, username)
156
157 elif fields.has_key("username"):
respond = <function respond>, apiKey = u'G9gCuD5oY0brNg0RH456LRwM', userID = u'1975743', username = u'IonSense'

/home/ubuntu/bibbase/cgi-bin/zotero/get.py in respond(apiKey=u'G9gCuD5oY0brNg0RH456LRwM', userID=u'1975743', username=u'IonSense')
91 for col in cols:
92 # print col.name, col.collectionKey
=> 93 baseurl = "https://api.zotero.org/users/"+userID+"/collections/"+col['collectionKey']+"/items?key="+apiKey+"&format=bibtex&limit=100"
94 baseurl = urllib.quote_plus(baseurl);
95 print "
  • BibBase">http://bibbase.org/show?bib="+baseurl+"&msg=embed\">BibBase page: ", col['name'].encode('ascii', 'xmlcharrefreplace'), "
  • "
    baseurl = u'http://bibbase.org/zotero/IonSense', userID = u'1975743', col = {u'group_id': u'1975743', u'key': u'DP88T8GJ', u'name': u'DART MS', u'parentCollection': False, u'relations': {}, u'updated': 'Thu, 26 Feb 2015 14:49:31 UTC', u'version': 125}, apiKey = u'G9gCuD5oY0brNg0RH456LRwM'

    <type 'exceptions.KeyError'>: 'collectionKey'
    args = ('collectionKey',)
    message = 'collectionKey'
    Answer
    Christian Fritz 9 years ago
    Paul,

    Thanks a lot for reporting this problem. It took me some time to investigate what happened and eventually noticed that the Zotero API had silently changed some default. I was able to fix this on bibbase's side. Zotero so far has been very stable with their API and it is strange that they didn't announce the change on the developer list. Maybe it sneaked in by mistake on their part. Hopefully this won't happen again though.

    Sorry for the inconvenience and the outage. You should be able to get a new zotero key now and the resulting pages should work. Let me know if they don't.

    Again, thanks for reporting.

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    Answered

    bibase customization

    Christopher Rozell 9 years ago updated by Bibliothèque du CHUM 5 years ago 8
    Hello-

    I am trying to customize bibbase to get the display I want and have a few questions that I can't find addressed in the current documentation or Q&A.

    1) Is there any way to change the ordering of the publication type groups? For example, if I want "inproceedings" to display before "articles" when the publications are grouped by type, is there any way for me to set that?

    2) Is there any way to remove some options from the "group by" menu? For example, can I remove the option to group by downloads?

    3) One of my biggest concerns with moving to bibbase is what I've read about having to load a page twice to get updates. If a researcher has visited my page in the past and comes back a few days later after I have updated, they won't know (and shouldn't be bothered) to load the page twice to see updates. Is there any way to ensure that all visitors to my page are seeing the current copy of my .bib file even if they have visited before?

    Thank you-

    chris

    Answer
    Christian Fritz 7 years ago

    Indeed, the code has changed. The correct CSS rule is now:


      #bibbase_header a[onclick="groupby('downloads')"] { display: none; }

    Thanks for reporting!


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    BibBase v3 Released

    Christian Fritz 11 years ago updated 8 years ago 1

    Over the last few weeks I have implemented a new version of BibBase. I will soon write up all the benefits of the new version, but for now this is just a note that this is what has changed. You will notice a slightly cleaner default look, and hopefully everything else just works as before. If not, please let me know.