Hackathon 2013/Citations

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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.
  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.
    • Micro-citations should be differentiated from verbatim references. A micro-citation is just an author and date (as seen in a full taxon name). A verbatim reference is the full reference as it appears in documentation that hasn't be broken into normalized pieces yet. Both versions need to be tracked and searchable. We also need a way to get a listing out of TW of both versions, so they can be normalized into full sources.
    • 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
    • Searching on Google Scholar/Wikipedia for books/authors

Contents

Terms

  • Citation: An individual, unnormalized use of a source.
  • Source: Something you want to credit in providing that data.
    • A person can be a source.
    • TW needs sources to be private or public.
  • Global source: a common pool of sources. These should be published and non-private.
  • Publication: contains multiple sources.

Members

  • Mike Maehr
  • Beth Frank
  • Gaurav Vaidya

Datasets we can play with

  • ITIS
  • GNUB
  • UCD

Input/output formats

  • BibTeX
  • RIS?

URLs of taxonomic significance

It should be noted that there will be multiple identifiers associated with a single source.

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

APIs available

  • The BHL API can be used to get bibliographic information on BHL pages and publications.
  • The Mendeley API can be used to get abstract, keywords, and search.