Algorithmic approach to contemporary bibliography generation Jakov M. Vežić Department of Information Sciences, University of Zadar, Croatia

Bibliography One of the oldest disciplines of library and information science Printed documents in the past Today both printed and digital Bibliography is not a references list or a works cited list „listing of works according to some system”

Bibliographies in a digital age Often created and published in the digital form What can be considered a bibliography? Search results Database Static and dynamic Various styles of creation, media of publication and intended use

Classifying bibliographies Analogue/Digital Intended use Enumerative Descriptive Creation style Manual Semi-automatic Automatic

Algorithmic approach Semi-automatic approach Automatic generation + human input Different from Reference Management Software Goal #1: Creating a flowchart for semi-automatic bibliography generation Goal #2: Create a „proof of concept” software according to said flowchart

Goals of the software Read structured bibliographic data Write bibliographies in various formats Provide tools for metadata mapping, standardization and validation Provide API, command line and GUI interfaces Provide workflow and interface for semi-automatic reporting and user responses Related tools

Problems Handling of various structured data formats Bibtex @Title = {….. @title={ @TITLE = { Context of creating a bibliography Citation styles