On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 10:36 PM, Simon Kornblith <[email protected]> wrote: > So, I have a crazy idea of how to shift as much of the complexity of > generating CSL away from the user as possible. Essentially, I want to be > able to copy and paste bibliography entries from a journal's reference list > into a box and end up with a formatted style. > As far as the implementation goes, we would need to: > 1) Convert the bibliography entries to a series of labeled fields using a > parser such as FreeCite.
I just spent some time getting FreeCite running locally. The project has been largely dormant for two years or so, but there's someone who's been committing to a fork on Github lately, and I was able to get it to work on my machine pretty quickly, once I remembered my Rails mambo. It works somewhat better than the current hosted version at Brown-- it at least recognizes post-1999 dates. If we could build some capability for the user to override the tags, an interactive review, then I think it'd make a reasonable platform. I think one of the issues that FreeCite struggles with is limited training data-- we should be able to provide strong data on things like author names, place names, publishers and the like (from the data stores of Zotero and perhaps Mendeley), that might make the tagging more accurate. We can also produce tagged training data using citeproc-js and known inputs to give good, comprehensive descriptions of major patterns in citation formatting. Avram ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Got Input? Slashdot Needs You. Take our quick survey online. Come on, we don't ask for help often. Plus, you'll get a chance to win $100 to spend on ThinkGeek. http://p.sf.net/sfu/slashdot-survey _______________________________________________ xbiblio-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xbiblio-devel
