Difference between revisions of "Hackathon 2013/Citations"

Revision as of 13:16, 30 September 2013

This pitch covers making sure that citations can flow easily in and out of TaxonWorks. It will do this in three ways:

1. Finding an existing data model which can hold information citations with a standard format for representing it.
   • Possibly wikipedia:BibTeX
2. Writing code to read this in and out in Ruby, possibly just using a standard library [1].
3. Writing code to resolve microcitations. A working example of this has been created by Rod Page that links generic names from Nomenclator Zoologicus with references from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
   • Lists of journals.
   • BHL API to convert BHL URLs into references
4. Finding out more about a particular citation
   • Getting abstract, keywords from PubMed
   • Pulling in citation from BHL
   • ImpactStory information
5. Designing a user interface to make it easy to resolve microcitations
   • Autocompletion
   • Journal name identification

Datasets we can play with

• ITIS
• GNUB
• UCD

Input/output formats

• BibTeX
• RIS?

URLs of taxonomic significance

• ISBN/ISSN
• BHL
• PubMed
• DOI
• Google Scholar
• Mendeley/Zotero/EndNote