DBLP is a computer science

Computer science

Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...

 bibliography

Bibliography

Bibliography , as a practice, is the academic study of books as physical, cultural objects; in this sense, it is also known as bibliology...

 website hosted at Universität Trier

University of Trier

The University of Trier , in the German city of Trier, was founded in 1473. Closed in 1798 by order of the then French administration in Trier, the university was re-established in 1970 after a hiatus of some 172 years. The new university campus is located on top of the Tarforst heights, an urban...

, in Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

. It was originally a database

Database

A database is an organized collection of data for one or more purposes, usually in digital form. The data are typically organized to model relevant aspects of reality , in a way that supports processes requiring this information...

 and logic programming

Logic programming

Logic programming is, in its broadest sense, the use of mathematical logic for computer programming. In this view of logic programming, which can be traced at least as far back as John McCarthy's [1958] advice-taker proposal, logic is used as a purely declarative representation language, and a...

 bibliography site, and has existed at least since the 1980s. DBLP listed more than 1.3 million articles on computer science in January 2010. Journals tracked on this site include VLDB

VLDB

VLDB is an annual conference held by the non-profit Very Large Data Base Endowment Inc.. The mission of VLDB is to promote and exchange scholarly work in databases and related fields throughout the world...

, a journal for very large database

Very large database

A very large database, or VLDB, is a database that contains an extremely high number of tuples , or occupies an extremely large physical filesystem storage space. The most common definition of VLDB is a database that occupies more than 1 terabyte or contains several billion rows, although naturally...

s, the IEEE Transactions and the ACM

Association for Computing Machinery

The Association for Computing Machinery is a learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 as the world's first scientific and educational computing society. Its membership is more than 92,000 as of 2009...

 Transactions. Conference proceedings papers are also tracked. It is mirrored at five sites across the Internet

Internet

The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...

.

For his work on maintaining DBLP, Michael Ley

Michael Ley

Michael Ley is a lecturer at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Trier . His primary interests are database systems, information retrieval, digital libraries and electronic publishing....

 received an award from the Association for Computing Machinery

Association for Computing Machinery

The Association for Computing Machinery is a learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 as the world's first scientific and educational computing society. Its membership is more than 92,000 as of 2009...

 and the VLDB Endowment Special Recognition Award in 1997.

DBLP originally stood for DataBase systems and Logic Programming. As a backronym

Backronym

A backronym or bacronym is a phrase constructed purposely, such that an acronym can be formed to a specific desired word. Backronyms may be invented with serious or humorous intent, or may be a type of false or folk etymology....

, it is now taken to stand for Digital Bibliography & Library Project.

DBL-Browser

DBL-Browser (Digital Bibliographic Library Browser) is a utility for browsing the DBLP website. The browser was written by Alexander Weber in 2005 at Universität Trier. It is designed for use off-line in reading the DBLP, which consists of 910,000 bibliographic entries, as of July 2007.

DBL-Browser is GPL software, available for download from SourceForge

SourceForge

SourceForge Enterprise Edition is a collaborative revision control and software development management system. It provides a front-end to a range of software development lifecycle services and integrates with a number of free software / open source software applications .While originally itself...

. It uses the XML

XML

Extensible Markup Language is a set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form. It is defined in the XML 1.0 Specification produced by the W3C, and several other related specifications, all gratis open standards....

 DTD

Document Type Definition

Document Type Definition is a set of markup declarations that define a document type for SGML-family markup languages...

. Written in Java programming language, this code shows the bibliographic entry in several types of screens, ranging from graphics to text:

• Author page
• Article page
• Table of contents
• Related conferences / journals
• Related authors (graphic representation of relationships)
• Trend analysis (graphics histogram)

DBLP is similar to the bibliographic portion of the physics

Physics

Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...

 arxiv.org which also links to articles. DBL-Browser provides a means to view some of the associated computer science articles.

See also

• Association for Computational Linguistics
  Association for Computational Linguistics
  The Association for Computational Linguistics is the international scientific and professional society for people working on problems involving natural language and computation. An annual meeting is held each summer in locations where significant computational linguistics research is carried out...
  
  
• CiteSeerX
  CiteSeerX
  CiteSeerX is a public search engine and digital library and repository for scientific and academic papers with a focus on computer and information science. It is loosely based on the previous CiteSeer search engine and digital library and is built with a new open source infrastructure, SeerSuite,...
  
  
• CogPrints
  CogPrints
  CogPrints is an electronic archive in which authors can self-archive papers in any area of Cognitive Science, including Psychology, Neuroscience, and Linguistics, and many areas of Computer Science , Philosophy , Biology CogPrints is an electronic archive in which authors can self-archive papers in...
  
  
• Google Scholar
  Google Scholar
  Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. Released in beta in November 2004, the Google Scholar index includes most peer-reviewed online journals of Europe and America's largest...
  
  
• Live Search Academic
• The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies
  The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies
  The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies is one of the oldest bibliography collections freely accessible on the Internet. It is a collection of bibliographies of scientific literature in computer science and mathematics from various sources, covering most aspects of computer science...
  
  

External links

• DBL-Browser
• CompleteSearch DBLP provides a fast search-as-you-type interface to DBLP, as well as faceted search. It is maintained by Holger Bast and synchronized daily with the DBLP database. Since December 2007, the search functionality is embedded into each DBLP author page (via Javascript
  JavaScript
  JavaScript is a prototype-based scripting language that is dynamic, weakly typed and has first-class functions. It is a multi-paradigm language, supporting object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles....
  
  ).
• FacetedDBLP provides a faceted search interface to DBLP, synchronized once per week with the DBLP database. In addition to common facets such as year, author, or venues, it contains a topic-based facet summarizing and characterizing the current result set based on the author keywords for individual publications. For the DBLP data, FacetedDBLP also provides an RDF
  Resource Description Framework
  The Resource Description Framework is a family of World Wide Web Consortium specifications originally designed as a metadata data model...
  
   dump (using D2R server technology) as well as an SQL
  SQL
  SQL is a programming language designed for managing data in relational database management systems ....
  
  dump based on the underlying mysql database.
• confsearch Conference search engine and calendar based on DBLP.