Docear

Docear
Developer(s) Joeran Beel, Stefan Langer, Marcel Genzmehr, Bela Gipp
Stable release 1.2 [1] / December 2, 2015 (2015-12-02)
Operating system Cross-platform
Platform Java
Type Mind Mapping, Reference management software, Bibliography manager
License GNU GPL
Website www.docear.org

Docear is what the developers call an “academic literature suite”.[2] Comparable to Microsoft Office, which bundles several applications for office workers, Docear bundles several applications for academics. As of now, these applications are BibTeX based reference management, mind mapping, and some pdf management capabilities. For the future, Docear is supposed to integrate a word processor, PDF editor and academic search engine.[3]

Docear is written in Java, licensed under the GNU General Public License and based on the open source software Freeplane and JabRef. The term ‘Docear’ has two meanings. First, it is pronounced similarly to “dog ear”, the folded down corner of a paper page. Second, “docear” in Latin means “I would be taught”.[4]

History

Docear is the successor of SciPlore MindMapping (aka FreeMind Scholar) which was originally developed by Joeran Beel and Bela Gipp as part of their PhD projects in 2009 at Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg and University of California, Berkeley. In July 2011, Joeran Beel and his colleagues Stefan Langer and Marcel Genzmehr received a grant[5] to re-develop SciPlore MindMapping, since then being called Docear. While SciPlore MindMapping was based on FreeMind, Docear is built upon the mind mapping software Freeplane and the reference manager JabRef. The first version of SciPlore MindMapping was released in May 2009. The first private Alpha of Docear was released in December 2011, the first public Beta in February 2012 which was later presented on CeBIT.[6]

Features

Docear has two key features not always offered by comparable tools.[7] First, Docear lets you import PDF annotations (bookmarks, comments and highlighted text). This way, a document’s most important information can be easily organized. If more information is required than the bookmark or comment itself provides, Docear can open the PDF on the page the bookmarks points to. Second, all information is structured in a mind map. Information management in a mind map is more effective and efficient than using a simple list or social tags.[8]

The features in detail:[9]

* Not yet implemented, or in combination with third party applications

See also

References

  1. ↑ Beel, Joeran (2 December 2015). "Docear 1.2 Stable: PDF Metadata Improvements & Faster Monitoring". Docear.org. Retrieved 21 Feb 2016.
  2. ↑ Joeran Beel, Bela Gipp, Stefan Langer, Marcel Genzmehr (2011). "Proceedings of the 11th annual international ACM/IEEE joint conference on Digital libraries (JCDL 2011)". ACM. |contribution= ignored (help)
  3. ↑ . 2012. Missing or empty |title= (help); |contribution= ignored (help)
  4. ↑ "Docere Translation". |contribution= ignored (help)
  5. ↑ Data and Knowledge Engineering Group (2011). Missing or empty |title= (help); |contribution= ignored (help)
  6. ↑ CeBIT (2012). Missing or empty |title= (help); |contribution= ignored (help)
  7. ↑ Daniel Wessel (2012). "Organizing Creativity Blog". |contribution= ignored (help)
  8. ↑ Farrand, P. and Hussain, F. and Hennessy, E. (2002). "Medical Education Journal". Med Educ (ACM) 36: 426–31. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2923.2002.01205.x. PMID 12028392. |contribution= ignored (help)
  9. ↑ Details & Features « Docear

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