Publishing Bibliographic Data on the Semantic Web using BibBase Reynold S. Xin × , Oktie Hassanzadeh + , Christian Fritz § Shirin Sohrabi + , Yang Yang + , Minghua Zhao + , Ren´ ee J. Miller + + Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto {oktie,sohrabi,c7yangya,mzhao,miller}@cs.toronto.edu × Department of EECS, University of California, Berkeley rxin@berkeley.edu § Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California fritz@isi.edu Abstract. We present BibBase, a system for publishing and manag- ing bibliographic data available in BibTeX files on the Semantic Web. BibBase uses a powerful yet light-weight approach to transform BibTeX files into rich Linked Data as well as custom HTML and RSS code that can readily be integrated within a user’s website. The data can instantly be queried online on the system’s SPARQL endpoint. In this demo, we present a brief overview of the features of our system and outline a few challenges in the design and implementation of such a system. Keywords: Bibliographic Data Management, Linked Data, Data Inte- gration 1 Introduction Management of bibliographic data has received significant attention in the re- search community. Many online systems have been designed specifically for this purpose, e.g., BibSonomy [9] and CiteSeer [10]. The work in the semantic web community in this area has also resulted in several tools (such as BiBTeX to RDF conversion tools [5]), ontologies (such as SWRC [7] and the Bibliographic Ontology [6]) and data sources (such as DBLP Berlin [8]). These systems, tools, and data sources are widely being used and have considerably simplified and enhanced many bibliographic data management tasks such as data curation, storage, retrieval, and sharing of bibliographic data. Despite the success of the above-mentioned systems, very few individuals and research groups publish their bibliographic data on their websites in a structured format, particularly following the principles of Linked Data [1] which mandate the use of HTTP dereferenceable URIs and structured (RDF) data to convey the semantics of the data This is mainly due to the fact that existing systems either are not designed to be used within an external website, or they require expert users to set up complex software systems on machines that meet the requirements of this software. BibBase aims to fill this gap by providing several distinctive features that our demo will illustrate.