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

2. 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”

3. 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

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

5. 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

6. 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

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