PUMA/BibSonomy Module

PBM is the PUMA/BibSonomy plugin for Moodle. It helps you to publish publication lists from the Publication Management System PUMA or BibSonomy within a Moodle course.

More information about PUMA and BibSonomy you can be found at www.academic-puma.de and at bitbucket.bibsonomy.org

Please note that you need a PUMA account from the PUMA server of your institution in order to fetch publication lists from it. Alternatively you can create a BibSonomy account for free in order to test PBM with BibSonomy.

1. What does it do?
2. Installation
3. Configuration

1. What does it do?

The pbm plugin helps you to publish lists of publications within a moodle course. Such lists are fetched from the Publication Management Software PUMA or the social bookmark and publication sharing system BibSonomy. The lists are configured through specifying a user name, a user group, and/or a set of tags.

The style in which the bibliography is displayed on the moodle course page can be chosen from various CSL files (Citation Style Language).

2. Installation

The following steps are necessary to add the PBM Plugin to a running Moodle installation.

• Download the plugin from the BitBucket repository: https://bitbucket.org/bibsonomy/pbm
• Unzip the file within your mod folder of the moodle installation. (e.g. /var/www/moodle/mod/pbm)
• Afterwards go to your Moodle page and navigate to "Site administration -> Plugins -> Plugins overview".
• Click the button "Check for available updates" at the top of the Plugins overview page.
• Moodle should now inform you, that database updates have to be made. Confirm that.
• You will be asked for a default server adress, which will be used as the default choice for a teacher configuring PBM on a course page. Insert the address of your institutional PUMA server or the URL of BibSonomy (e.g. http://puma.uni-kassel.de or http://www.bibsonomy.org)
• The PBM plugin is now successfully installed.

3. Create a Publication list in a Moodle course

The following steps explain how the plugin can be used by a teacher/trainer to generate literature lists on a Moodle course page.

• Follow the "Add an activity or resource" link within a course while editing is turned on.
• A list with activities will pop up. Mark PBM and click add.

• Now you can add some information in order to specify the list of publications.

  

• Config:

  Select Content Source: You can create lists using different criteria: Select posts of a specific user, posts of a group, or posts that are viewable for a particular user/group
  Id of user, group or viewable source: The identifier for a source: a user or group id.
  URL of PUMA or BibSonomy server: Either the PUMA server of your institution or http://www.bibsonomy.org.
  API user: This is your user id in PUMA/BibSonomy. API key: You can find your API key in your user settings within your PUMA or BibSonomy account. Citation style: The citation style determines how a single publication will be formatted. PBM comes with a couple of csl files. Get more at (http://citationstyles.org/).