CloudRef

CloudRef is a web-based tool for managing bibliographical references.

Scientific publication: Oliver Kopp, Uwe Breitenbücher, Tamara Müller: CloudRef – Towards Collaborative Reference Management in the Cloud. ZEUS 2018, CEUR-WS.org

CloudRef supports collaborative work and quality assurance of references. The software consists of an Angular application at the front end and a Java application at the back end. For the front end the admin template “ng2-admin” by Akveo is used.

Start using Docker

1. docker run -p 127.0.0.1:8080:8080 jabref/cloudref
2. Open http://localhost:8080/
3. Use maintainer/developer as login

The user maintainer has full rights for merging references. Other users can just be created via the login form and cannot merge if the threshold of 3 was not reached.

Note that the data is stored inside the Docker container and might get lost. To connect a local folder (e.g., D:\CloudRef) to docker, use following command:

docker run --rm -v"D:/CloudRef:/root/CloudRef" -p 127.0.0.1:8080:8080 jabref/cloudref

Local build and start

1. docker build -t cloudref .
2. docker run -p 127.0.0.1:8080:8080 cloudref
3. Open http://localhost:8080/
4. Use maintainer/developer as login

Installation

Installation of required software

1. Install node.js
2. Install Java JDK8

Node version >= 6.0 and NPM version >= 3 required!

Versions can be checked with:

node -v
npm -v

Get application and install dependencies

1. Clone repository or download .zip file
2. Navigate into the “frontend” folder of the project

3. Install dependencies

   npm install
   

Create CloudRef.sqlite in your users home directory

1. Download the SQLite Command Line Shell (“sqlite-tools”) from https://sqlite.org/download.html.
2. Copy sqlite3.exe into the folder where the database is stored {USER_DIRECTORY}/CloudRef
3. Run sqlite3.exe
4. Run

    .open CloudRef.sqlite
   

5. Run the statements from user-maintainer.sql in the sqlite3 shell

Start application

1. Front end: run following command in the “frontend” folder

   npm start
   

2. Back end: run following command in the “backend” folder

   ./gradlew run
   

The application is available at http://localhost:4200 and a Swagger definition of the RESTful web service of the back end at http://localhost:8080/swagger.json.

Set role of user to ‘MAINTAINER’

A user with the role ‘MAINTAINER’ can additionally edit a suggestion for modification. Furthermore, he can accept and reject suggestions directly. The role of a user cannot be changed through the user interface but in the database.

Possibility to change the role:

1. Download the SQLite Command Line Shell (“sqlite-tools”) from https://sqlite.org/download.html.
2. Copy sqlite3.exe into the folder where the database is stored {USER_DIRECTORY}/CloudRef
3. Open sqlite3.exe file

4. Run

   .open CloudRef.sqlite
   UPDATE User
   SET role = 'MAINTAINER'
   WHERE username = {username};
   

Development

We needed to change the basePath in DefaultApi.ts as follows

protected basePath = location.protocol + '//' + location.hostname + ':' + location.port === '4200' ? '8080' : location.port;

In case you regenerate DefaultApi.ts, please patch this line.