Web research (scenario summary)

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Scenario title: Albert is doing web research for a presentation

Albert is doing web research for a presentation about black holes. He wants to collect links, bibliography references and notes, and then structure these informations. Finally he needs a good overview and would like to export the bibliography.

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Albert has to hold a presentation about current research on black holes in a physics seminar in two weeks. He uses BasKet to collect and structure web research results. He uses the grouping features to make out how he can split the topic so it is easier to handle.

For his scientific work, Albert collects complete bibliographic information he copies to his presentation document later. Read the full problem scenario.

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Albert can now drop or create new BiBTeX entries into BasKet where they are shown nicely layouted. He also can link notes to each other using arrows. Therefore he groups notes belonging to the different parts of the topic, but create crosslinks anyway.

Using the zoom function, he can see the whole basket's structure at one glance, which is helpful for visual understanding although he cannot read the individual notes.

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Image:pro.png Albert can keep all associated information in one place.
Image:pro.png links can be annotated.
Image:con.png Albert can insert references as links to BiBTeX entries, but they are not displayed in BasKet.
Image:con.png Albert cannot work offline with documents dragged into BasKet from web pages because they are not copied (he has to copy them to a folder first, then drag them into BasKet).
Image:con.png Albert cannot link notes to each other except by grouping. He needs more loose linking.
Image:con.png getting an overview is hard in large baskets.

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Image:pro.png Albert can keep all associated information in one place.
Image:pro.png links can be annotated.
Image:pro.png This saves him a lot of work because he does not have to revisit the page to get correct citations later.
Image:pro.png BiBTeX entries can be used in BasKet and later dragged to other programs as well.
Image:pro.png single notes can be related to each other in multiple ways (grouping, arrows and lines)
Image:pro.png basket printouts can be used as an overview.
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