Page, Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Do you mean online access to arXiv.org using "hep-ph/0509024" as > a search key to retrieve and parse the citation info... I think > that is ambitious. Are there any web tools for arXiv that make > this easier?
Yes. SPIRES: http://www.slac.stanford.edu/ indexes everything on the arXiv, provides bibtex for it, and forward-tracks the articles into journals. There are several highly non-trivial way to interrogate its database. Other services include NASA Abstract service: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abstract_service.html Citebase: http://www.citebase.org/cgi-bin/citations?id=oai:arXiv.org:hep-ph/0506151 of course there are others more relevant to other branches of science... > > I want to make it as easy as possible for people to add a > > \cite{blah}. > > I think the problem is not the \cite but rather the 'blah' ... > 'blah' must be a simple, useful and unique identifier of a > published document. That is not easy in general. Well we have several terse identifiers that can be recognized: hep-ph/0509024 (arxiv.org) math.NT/0604263 (arxiv.org) McElrath:2005bp (bibtex entries in the SPIRES database: http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/hep/www?key=6255744&FORMAT=WWWBRIEFBIBTEX) doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.72.103508 (http://scitation.aip.org/jhtml/doi.jsp) 2006PhRvD..73a5011G (NASA ADS) I'm sure there are others (ISBN, etc). These are easy to look up, and a lot easier to copy than full bibliographic info. Given any of those I know how to get the bibtex via an HTTP request, which can be fed to the Plone Bibliography. Then a nice citation can be rendered as part of the wiki page. See the bottom of http://mcelrath.org/Notes/TODO for an example of such a rendering. > > The bibliography is already there (or at least accessable on > > SPIRES and the arXiv) so all that is needed is for the wiki > > page to recognize the \cite. > > Parsing static data like 'hep-ph/0509024' into a clickable url > is easy but extracting and formating citation information is > rather hard to do in general. That's why we have tools like > BiBtex and EndNote, etc. I want to get the info out of the Plone Bibliography, or have the server interrogate external bibliography servers. > One thing that I am quite interested in for other reasons is > a project called DSpace: > > http://dspace.org > > This is an aggressive and rapidly developing project fueled by > HP, and MIT to produce a free open source digital archive. It > is very rapidly be adopted by the university research library > community and I have already set it up a few times for several > of my clients. It is not so hard to setup for personal use. > DSpace already provides integration of a local archive with a > web-wide "handle" server that simplies urls that reference > archive content and make it possible to move the content with > out changing the document handle. interesting... > Maybe integrating something like this might be worthwhile... > but beware: This a Java/JSP web application - somewhat different > world that Zope and Python. ;) Well just yesterday I was forced to use a Java application, and it crashed my browser, again. A few days before that I decided to try (again) the Java interface to Maple. UUUGGGHHHH it's slow. What's that? A fork in my eye? Aaaahhh much better. -- Cheers, Bob McElrath [Univ. of California at Davis, Department of Physics] "It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning." -- George Orwell
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