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2021 Update for Docear’s “Google Scholar Parser” Library to Fetch Metadata for PDF files
Our reference management software Docear has not been actively developed for a few years, and recently, the add-on to fetch metadata from Google Scholar stopped working. Fortunately, one of our users (Li Yang) adjusted Docear’s Google Scholar Parser, and now everything works as…
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Update for Docear’s “Google Scholar Parser” Library to Fetch Metadata for PDF files
Google Scholar recently changed its layout, and as a consequence, Docear couldn’t fetch metadata anymore from Google Scholar for PDF files. Fortunately, one of our users (“Silberzwiebel”) adjusted Docear’s Google Scholar Parser, and now everything works as usual. However, we…
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Docear’s Online Services Are Down (Recommendation; User Registration; Backup)
Currently, all of Docear’s online services are down. This means, you cannot register, log-in to download backups, or receive recommendations. As we have no time right now for the development of Docear, we are afraid that we won’t be able to fix this problem anytime soon.…
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Various positions to work on research-paper recommender systems (Mr. DLib) and Docear (Bachelor/Master/PhD/Post-Doc)
Updated on 2017-08-14: Here at Docear and Mr. DLib we have many exciting projects in the field of recommender systems, user modelling, personalisation, and adaptive systems (primarily with a focus on digital libraries but we are also open for domains such as health care,…
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Students & PostDocs: We have open positions in Tokyo, Copenhagen, and Konstanz (2-24 months)
Update 2016-01-12: The salary in Tokyo would be around 1.600 US$ per month, not 1.400. 2015 has been a rather quiet year for Docear, but 2016 will be different. We have lots of ideas for new projects, and even better – we have funding to pay at least 1 Master or PhD student, to…
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Docear 1.2 Stable: PDF Metadata Improvements & Faster Monitoring
After releasing the Beta some weeks ago, we made some minor adjustments, and consider the current version 1.2 as stable. There are two major improvements and two bad news: Various improvements in the PDF Metadata retrieval function for Google Scholar. If you had some problems in…
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Docear 1.2 Beta Release: PDF Metadata Improvements & New Add-On to Import ALL Highlighted text
Docear 1.2 Beta is now available and has two major improvements: A new add-on to import any kind of highlighted text from PDFs This new add-on is a true milestone in the Docear development. Until now, you could only import highlighted text from PDF editors that copied the…
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New paper for UMAP’15: Exploring the Potential of User Modeling based on Mind Maps
One reason why we originally started the development of Docear was our interest in how people are creating mind-maps and how the information contained in mind-maps could be used for building recommender systems and other user-modeling applications. As a result of our we…
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How to proceed with the development of the Docear4LibreOffice add-on ?
More than half a year ago, we started a call for donation to pay a freelancer who wanted to develop an add-on for LibreOffice and OpenOffice, comparable to Docear4Word. Originally, we estimated that it would take about 2 months before the work was completed, or at least a decent…
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Update of the Google Scholar PDF Metadata Retrieval Library
In the past few weeks, several users reported that Docear could not retrieve metadata more from Google Scholar any more. It took as a while, but now we found and fixed the problem – hopefully. We need your help to test if the fixed version really works well for all of you (it’s…