HyperRef: online support for research literature assessment and documentation
Citation: Rudolf K. Keller, Anurag Garg, Tao Tao (1993) HyperRef: online support for research literature assessment and documentation. Proceedings of the 11th annual international conference on Systems documentation (RSS)
DOI (original publisher): 10.1145/166025.166079
Semantic Scholar (metadata): 10.1145/166025.166079
Sci-Hub (fulltext): 10.1145/166025.166079
Internet Archive Scholar (search for fulltext): HyperRef: online support for research literature assessment and documentation
Tagged: Computer Science
(RSS) bibliographic management (RSS), workflow (RSS), docuentation (RSS)
Summary
This paper concerning bibliographies and management of research papers describes a process-model underlying their workflow and describes a tool they created. The theory (still relevant) concerns how a research group can maintain current awareness of the literature (including group discussions). The tool is the HyperRef tool for BiBTeX, a graphical, hypertext-based user interface.
Model: "Comprehensive Paper Process"
The model, called the "Comprehensive Paper Process model" is further discussed in [KML '93] (citation below). Here they outline it as follows:
- Literature search: Advanced students screen journals and conference proceedings and
- Store them in the bibliographic database
- Paper selection (including distributing copies, scheduling a discussion)
- Individual Paper Reading
- Paper Discussion Process
- Completed Paper Discussion Form (based on the group's discussion) drives updates to the bibliographic database
- The database can support certain operations such as
- Following user-defined links
- preforming queries
- generating reports
Paper Discussion Process
The paper discussion process is also described. There are 4 key roles:
- moderator
- presenter (summarizes the paper for the group)
- recorder (fills out a form re
- everyone else
The conversation takes an hour, roughly distributed as:
- Provide clerical info
- Provide bibliographic info
- Present paper (10 minutes)
- Start discussion (20 minutes)
- Classify paper "according to the paper type and the issues addressed" (5 min)
- Analyze technical content of paper (15 minutes)
- Identify research issues and future readings
- "The discussion concludes with a re-examination of some key previous items and an assessment of the paper's presentation and overall quality" (5 min)
An appendix provides further details about the steps and questions in each part of the discussion.
Tool
The HyperRef tool is then described, beginning with a requirement analysis.
Related Research
[KM '92] Rudolf K. Keller and Nazim H. Madhavji. A comprehensive process model for discussing and recording scientic papers. In Proceedings of the 2nd European Worshop on Software Process Technology, pages 245-253, Trondheim, Norway, September 1992.
[KML '93] Rudolf K. Keller, Nazim H. Madhavji, Richard Lajoie, Tilrnann F. Bruckhaus, Kamel Toubache, Won-Kook Hon & Khaled El Emarn. A comprehensive process model for studying software process papers. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Software Engineering, pages 78-88, Baltimore, MD, May 1993.
Theoretical and Practical Relevance
This paper provides a review of related systems from the late 1980's and early 1990's, which might be interesting for understanding bibliographical systems of this era.
The process described may be useful to group leaders; the authors describe it as having three major educational benefits:
- teaching domain knowledge
- modeling critical evaluation of and information-capture from papers
- practicing presentation skills
