Le Roux, WHBurke, Ivan D2009-07-092009-07-092009-05Le Roux, WH and Burke, ID. 2009. Collaborative reference management system. African Digital Scholarship and Curation Conference 2009, Pretoria, CSIR, 12-14 May, 2009. pp 1-11http://hdl.handle.net/10204/3494African Digital Scholarship and Curation Conference 2009, Pretoria, CSIR, 12-14 May, 2009Citation has always been a crucial part of research when it comes to accreditation for intellectual property. The maintenance of these references has mostly been the sole responsibility of the author to collect, maintain and format. There are tools to assist in this regard, both commercial and open source with varying degrees of support for user specific needs, yet it became apparent that a gap emerged between these utilities; there were no real support for collaborative reference sharing or maintenance. To address this problem a prototype collaborative reference management system was designed. This paper indicates the methodology used to implement this prototype as well as the lessons learned during the development of the system. It also identifies two possible research questions that might be worth investigating in future researchenReference management systemBibliographical reference management toolsBibTex databaseOpen source softwareRefWorksJabRefPrototype systemCollaboration softwareAfrican Digital Scholarship and Curation ConferenceConference PresentationLe Roux, W., & Burke, I. D. (2009). Collaborative reference management system. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/3494Le Roux, WH, and Ivan D Burke. "Collaborative reference management system." (2009): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/3494Le Roux W, Burke ID, Collaborative reference management system; 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/3494 .TY - Conference Presentation AU - Le Roux, WH AU - Burke, Ivan D AB - Citation has always been a crucial part of research when it comes to accreditation for intellectual property. The maintenance of these references has mostly been the sole responsibility of the author to collect, maintain and format. There are tools to assist in this regard, both commercial and open source with varying degrees of support for user specific needs, yet it became apparent that a gap emerged between these utilities; there were no real support for collaborative reference sharing or maintenance. To address this problem a prototype collaborative reference management system was designed. This paper indicates the methodology used to implement this prototype as well as the lessons learned during the development of the system. It also identifies two possible research questions that might be worth investigating in future research DA - 2009-05 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR KW - Reference management system KW - Bibliographical reference management tools KW - BibTex database KW - Open source software KW - RefWorks KW - JabRef KW - Prototype system KW - Collaboration software KW - African Digital Scholarship and Curation Conference LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 2009 T1 - Collaborative reference management system TI - Collaborative reference management system UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/3494 ER -