Visualising and mining digital bibliographic data

Abstract

Finding related publications and their correct bibliographical data is getting harder and harder due to the mass of unrequested information and the decreasing precision of many information providers. The DBLP Computer Science Bibliography is a service used by thousands of computer scientists which provides fundamental support for scientists searching for publications or other scientists in similar communities. This paper describes a user-friendly interface which plays the central role in searching, browsing, and mining of bibliographical data. After introducing the concept of multi-layered browsing and an integrated smart component for entering new data, DBL-Browser itself and various visualisations are described.