About this project
- Each reference can be imagined as an index-card, which describes a single knowledge item found either in the global Internet or in some locally stored resource. I.e. the reference-service is the same old concept of library catalogue, which describes Web resources instead of books.
Here is a list of meta-attributes being stored for a single reference:
| Attribute name |
Property name in RSS |
Description |
| url (*) |
rdf:about |
Mandatory, single. The most accessible (and most authoritative way) to get the resource. |
| title (*) |
dc:title |
Mandatory, single (=url, if not specified). |
| alternateUrls |
|
Optional, list. |
| author |
dc:creator |
Optional, ordered list. |
| seeAlso |
|
Optional, list. URLs or other reference entries, which are somehow related to the current one. |
| tags |
|
Optional, list. Simple words in ASCII, taken from a limited or unlimited collection. |
| year |
|
Optional, single. When the original resource appeared |
| source |
|
Optional, single. Publisher or other resource aggregation this resource primarily belongs to. |
| sourceUrl |
|
Optional, single. URLs of resource aggregation this reference belongs to. |
| description |
|
Optional, single. Brief abstract of why this resource is interesting for the maker of the reference. |
Moreover, the reference maker (XWiki author) and the date, when reference was created is reflected in the XWiki data model (can also add to the table).
See
http://www.ante.lv/xwiki-tools/references.html - a
Facetted Browse solution implemented using
MIT Simile Exhibit.
How to use References
- Add new reference by entering reference technical name in the form. For this name only Latin characters and numbers are allowed.
- Enter reference URL, title and label. Label is abbreviation which is used in the text to refer to the source document. Save the reference.
- Go Edit->Inline form to add other parameters to the reference
- Using "Add property", enter other information. Parameters are described in the table above.

It is important to save each property after adding, it can be done by "Save & continue"

For entering "Topics" (categories by which reference can be sorted) use "|" sign as a separator
- Completed reference looks like this: