Advanced Management of Research Publications based on the Lightroom Paradigm

Adobe Lightroom is an example of a domain-specific information management tool that has adopted many of the practices that have become well-established within the research community such as automatic metadata extraction, fast keyword-based retrieval and querybased collections for the management of images. It also supports the workflow of professional photographers. We will present a web-based system that transfers some of these advanced concepts to the realm of research publications. The new application introduces sophisticated facilities for classifying publications in different dimensions based on combined notions of flagging, tagging, ratings and colours in addition to manual organisation and sorting in collections. Retrieval and discovery in a potentially large publication corpus is achieved by providing efficient browsing techniques based on a faceted search interface and user-driven categorisation.