Hi Donny,

No, sorry, we are not planning on open-sourcing the BibBase backend. However, in terms of uptime, I don't think there is much for you to worry about. BibBase has been in operation since 2005 and has been used since then by more users every year. They all rely on it being up and running 24/7 and so we take measures to prevent outages just like any other web site and as a result they are very rare. Naturally, we also have monitoring solutions in place that alert us of any problems as soon as they happen, so that we can fix them right away.

That said we are contemplating a paid tier with uptime guarantees, designated support, and other features. Would that be of interest to your group?

Please provide a more detailed description of this idea. Am I right to assume you mean Google Scholar? and do you mean importing from there? If that is the suggestion, then, unfortunately, the answer is no, that's not possible, because Google doesn't provide an API.

Sorry, no, not at this point.

BTW, Mathias, you can use the DBLP provided Bibtex file directly as your BibBase source as well:

http://bibbase.org/show?bib=http%3A%2F%2Fdblp.dagstuhl.de%2Fpers%2Ftb0%2Fw%2FWeller%3AMathias.bib&msg=embed

Thanks for pointing this out. It is fixed now.

One thing to note is that the update will take two page loads (with a pause in-between). The first one will trigger the refresh from Zotero. If that completes then the second page load will show the refreshed results. This is done for speed: Zotero is not super fast in responding and your page should not be delayed in loading.

If that doesn't explain and resolve your issue, then please point us at the Zotero page where the updates are happening, so we can debug.

Thanks.

Denis,

What is that browser you are using, I do not recognize it from Figure 4. I suspect that it has problems with the forwarding logic of the Zotero authentication. Have you tried a different browser (e.g., Chrome or Firefox)?

Hallo Jens,

Thanks for reporting this! This turned out to be caused by a typo in our latex-to-unicode translator. It's fixed now:

http://bibbase.org/show?bib=https%3A%2F%2Fkbsg.rwth-aachen.de%2F~classen%2Fjclassen.bib&msg=embed

Best,

Christian

Do you mean the font changes when using this trick? Yes, that could be. You might need to add CSS rules for the same ":after" selectors.

No, unfortunately the list that appears in the GroupBy drop down is fixed.