I'd say yes to the investment in jQuery generally - not too difficult to get the basics if you already use javascript, and makes some things a lot easier
It sounds like you are trying to do something not dissimilar to LibX http://libx.org ? (except via bookmarklet rather than as a browser plugin). Also looking for custom database scrapers it might be worth looking at Zotero translators, as they already exist for many major sources and I guess will be grabbing the DOI where it exists if they can http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/translators Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 17 May 2013, at 05:32, "Fitchett, Deborah" <deborah.fitch...@lincoln.ac.nz> wrote: > Kia ora koutou, > > I’m wanting to create a bookmarklet that will let people on a journal article > webpage just click the bookmarklet and get a permalink to that article, > including our proxy information so it can be accessed off-campus. > > Once I’ve got a DOI (or other permalink, but I’ll cross that bridge later), > the rest is easy. The trouble is getting the DOI. The options seem to be: > > 1. Require the user to locate and manually highlight the DOI on the > page. This is very easy to code, not so easy for the user who may not even > know what a DOI is let alone how to find it; and some interfaces make it hard > to accurately select (I’m looking at you, ScienceDirect). > > 2. Live in hope of universal CoiNS implementation. I might be waiting a > long time. > > 3. Work out, for each database we use, how to scrape the relevant > information from the page. Harder/tedious to code, but makes it easy for the > user. > > I’ve been looking around for existing code that something like #3. So far > I’ve found: > > · CiteULike’s bookmarklet (jQuery at http://www.citeulike.org/bm - > afaik it’s all rights reserved) > > · AltMetrics’ bookmarklet (jQuery at > http://altmetric-bookmarklet.dsci.it/assets/content.js - MIT licensed) > > Can anyone think of anything else I should be looking at for inspiration? > > Also on a more general matter: I have the general level of Javascript that > one gets by poking at things and doing small projects and then getting > distracted by other things and then coming back some months later for a > different small project and having to relearn it all over again. I’ve long > had jQuery on my “I guess I’m going to have to learn this someday but, um, > today I just wanna stick with what I know” list. So is this the kind of thing > where it’s going to be quicker to learn something about jQuery before I get > started, or can I just as easily muddle along with my existing limited > Javascript? (What really are the pros and cons here?) > > Nāku noa, nā > > Deborah Fitchett > Digital Access Coordinator > Library, Teaching and Learning > > p +64 3 423 0358 > e deborah.fitch...@lincoln.ac.nz<mailto:deborah.fitch...@lincoln.ac.nz> | w > library.lincoln.ac.nz<http://library.lincoln.ac.nz/> > > Lincoln University, Te Whare Wānaka o Aoraki > New Zealand's specialist land-based university > > > ________________________________ > P Please consider the environment before you print this email. > "The contents of this e-mail (including any attachments) may be confidential > and/or subject to copyright. Any unauthorised use, > distribution, or copying of the contents is expressly prohibited. If you > have received this e-mail in error, please advise the sender > by return e-mail or telephone and then delete this e-mail together with all > attachments from your system." >
