Daffodil:Personal Library Tool
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The Personal Library (PLib)
The personal library (PLib) is your personal knowledge store, where you can store any digital library object:
The PLib can be structured the way you want it, via folders, which can have folders themself. On the top level is a distinction of folders. The folder with your name is you personal folder. All other folders are group folders, you belong to. |  |
Folder Handling
| A folder can be created, deleted, renamed, moved (!) and linked (!). You can use the context menu for all this tasks (see picture below) |  |
Fulltext Handling
Annotation
Rights
Awareness
The concept of awareness within Daffodil denotes two ideas. Since Daffodil is a collaborative tool, the system should make you aware about new entries in group folders, or your private folders. This is described in the following section "What's New". On the other hand, the system can do tasks automatically for you, e.x. process queries in definable intervals for you and put new information into your PLib folder. This is described in the following section "Notification".
What's New
| This part of the awareness module makes the user aware of new objects in his workspace-area of the PLib. This workspace-area includes the user's home folder and all group folders the user has access to.
New objects can be inserted into the PLib by the user himself through the Search Tool and through other tools (drag&drop). Additionally other users are able to insert new objects into group folders the appropriate user has access to. Last but not least new objects can be inserted into the PLib by the notification service (see section below). These new objects are marked with an eye-symbol. In order to recognize objects that are hidden in the folder structure, each folder containing at least one new object in its subtree is marked with an eye, too. When an object is clicked on, the details for this object are called up and the eye-symbol is permanently removed. If the object was the last new object in the subtree of a folder, the eye-symbol of the appropriate folder is removed, too. For a quick elimination of all awareness-marks within a folder-tree there is the button "Reset Awareness" of the context-menu. By using this option all eye-symbols within a folder subtree are permanently removed at once. |   |
Notification
| This part of the awareness module is responsible for updating the user with new released documents regarding to the user's topics. Additionally this notification service informs the user about changes in the content of specific webpages.
The user is able to add several DL-objects to his notification-profile by using the "Notification Profile" entry of the context menu. DL-objects that can be set under longterm awareness are:
For queries, there is the additional option to define an awareness interval (daily, weekly, half-monthly and monthly). This is because for some queries it is not reasonable to process them every day - regarding to an expected small set of answers. The notification profile is a panel that is situated next to the PLib-Browsing. Here the user is able to view the entries of his notification profile. The button "Load" updates the profile entries. The button "Delete" removes selected items of the notification profile. With "Start Notification" the notification agent is started for testing purposes. Usually the notification agent runs every night. New found documents are inserted into the PLib - regarding to the paths the original objects are stored in. If these paths have changed or are not existing anymore, the standard folder "notification" in the user's home is used instead. The visualization of new objects is delegated to the awareness module of the PLib (see section above). If the content of a webpage has changed, its appropriate object is also marked as new through the awareness module of the PLib. |   |
Export
| All objects should be exportable to one of the formats BibTex, EndNote or plain XML. To export an object, select it in the PLib and use the context menu for export, and select the format you prefer (see next picture). It is currently not supported to export whole folders or folder structures. |  |
Bibtex
| If you prefer the bibtex format, the export tool will open and show the
PLib entry in bibtex format (see picture) |  |
EndNote
| If you prefer the endnote format, the export tool will open and show the PLib entry in endnote format (see picture) |  |
XML
The export to XML is currently not enabled.
Recommendation
Sorry, recommendation is not fully intergrated into Daffodil yet.
