About FacetedDBLP

The FacetedDBLP search interface allows to search computer science publications in the DBLP collection starting from some keyword and shows the result set along with a set of facets, e.g., distinguishing publication years, authors, or conferences. It is the first large scale application that uses GrowBag graphs to create a computer science specific topic facet, with which a user can characterize the result set in terms of main research topics and filter it according to certain subtopics.

FacetedDBLP builds upon the DBLP++ data set which is an enhancement of DBLP (as of 2010-08-27) plus additional keywords and abstracts as available on public web pages. We have also corrected some of the links to electronic editions, which were broken in DBLP. A brief description of the GrowBag facet within FacetedDBLP can be found in our JCDL paper, a detailed description of the algorithm is available on the GrowBag project page.

DBLP++ is stored in a mysql database and can be accessed in several ways:

Using web services (see the DBLP++ WSDL file or the ASPL-2 WSDL file for more advanced access functions).
Using our D2R server to retrieve RDF (limited to 10000 triples per query).
Getting the database dump (~100MB!).
Getting the rdf dump (in N3 notation only) (~220 MB!).

If you want to run your own D2R server (e.g., to overcome the 10000 triples per query limit), download the above SQL dump and store it in a mysql database. Then get the D2R server package and use my configuration file.

For more information, contact Jörg Diederich (main developer), Wolf-Tilo Balke, or Uwe Thaden.

This work has been supported by the European projects KnowledgeWeb and ViKEF.