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DBL-Browser

Please update to Version 2.0b asap

Introduction

The DBL-Browser (Digital Bibliographic Library Browser) is a utility for browsing Digital Bibliographic Libraries. It is currently used for browsing the whole DBLP Library offline.

The DBL-Browser is an offline browser. Once installed, you can search and browse the downloaded data without the need of a network connection. No matter what operating system you are using, the DBL-Browser is easy to install, easy to run and easy to use.

The DBL-Browser has been developed using Java within the NetBeans platform framework and is still under development. The DBLP data file can be obtained from this site which is updated regularly – up to 2 times a month.
(see the Download section)

Features

  1. Browse offline more than 1,000,000 Publications and about 600,000 authors from DBLP
  2. Easy to use - browse and navigate like any web-browser
  3. All authors, conferences/journals, and title words are linked
  4. Provides information about relationships between authors, conferences or journals
  5. Fast and powerful search functions
  6. Links to more than 175,000 full-texts or abstracts
  7. Links to homepages of nearly 8,600 authors

Screenshots

Author page Article page Table of contents
All available information of an author (incl. homepage) is visualised on the author page. More detailed information is available through the article page. Journal and Conferene TOC pages are provided, with links to online material.
Related conferences / journals Related authors Trend analysis
Additional visualisation shows relationships between conferences. Additional visualisation shows relationships between (co-)authors. Trend analysis with histograms, i.e. using 'buzz words'.

Requirements

You need at least:
  • 384MB main memory (the more the better!)
  • Java-Runtime-Environment (JRE) version 1.4.x (or 5.x) installed
    If you don't already have this, or are unsure if you do, please refer to the Java download pages at http://www.java.com.

Download

To begin using the DBL-Browser, you will need both the program file and the data file. If you are obtaining an updated version of the data file, you will only need to download the data file.

DBL-Browser Program File (Version 2.0b) – Last Update: September 6th 2006

Web-Installer for the DBL-Browser
You only need download a small installer, which is able to load all required files (DBL-Browser, data file, source code) on-the-fly via the internet (so you need an internet connection during the installation). This is the preferred way to install the DBL-Browser.
Installer for the DBL-Browser
This installer contains just the DBL-Browser (no source code nor data file). Therefor you don't need an internet connection during the installation, but you need to download the data file by yourself for working with the DBL-Browser.
DBL-Browser without installer
This file contains just a zip of the installation folder. For installing please refer to the Install instructions.
Launching the DBL-Browser on MacOS X
For launching the DBL-Browser on MacOS X it seems to work to set the environment variable JDK_HOME to /Library/Java/Home and to use the Linux start script.
Source code
And last but not least: the source code...

DBLP Data File – Last Update: 26.05.2008

  • DBLP-Datafile (>1,000,000 publications, 61 MB, .zip file)
    please unpack before you use it with the browser!

XML 2 CDR - generate your own compressed data file

Links to our OpenSource Sites:

    freshmeat   SourceForge

Bugs

If you update from an old version, please be sure, to uninstall your old version first!

If the browser is not starting correctly, please try removing the .netbeans folder in your 'HOME directory'.

If you encounter any bugs/problems in the current version of the DBL-Browser, please visit our Bug-Tracking-System.

Further Information

Publications

Presentations

Links

P. Birke (birke@uni-trier.de) - last change 2008-05-26