Hi Bruce,
Thanks for the prompt response. citeproc-js was the first project I looked
at, and my recollection is that you are correct. No support for importing
MODs. Can you recommend any good resources outside of the citeproc-js
project and its documentation for the JSON it expects? I think that may
just be the route I go.
As far as original implementation of CSL using MODS that is actually what
brought me to CSL--okay, it was actually google. I'm afraid not only would
it be an older version of the CSL spec it is also would likely expect a
much older version of the MODs we are using.
I just cannot help feeling a bit surprised that having MODS, Bibtex,
Endnote, RIS, DC, and MARCXML I cannot find a solid route to transform one
of them into an HTML formatted citation. I am not tied to using CSL
necessarily, but hands down it looks like one of the best resources out
there. I feel like I am about to reinvent the wheel and that if I just keep
researching a little longer I'll find something.
Best,
Matt
On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Bruce D'Arcus <bdar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Matt -- the most mature CSL code is the javascript implementation by
> Frank Bennett.
>
> I don't believe, though Frank can correct me if I'm wrong, that
> citeproc-js can import MODS files.
>
> So I am guessing you'd probably want to get someone to write an XSLT
> transformation to generate the JSON input data format from the MODS.
>
> I'm not aware of any such code, but it may already exist. Also worth
> noting that conceptually such code would be pretty similar to an XSLT
> that could convert MODS to any other similar text format: RIS,
> Endnote, etc. So if you could find such openly licensed XSLT, it
> should be fairly easy to adapt to a CSL workflow.
>
> But there's another option, I suppose:
>
> I wrote the first implementation of CSL using MODS in an exist-based
> workflow. So that code would probably work, with the downside that it
> would be based on an old version of the CSL spec. But you might not
> care about that.
>
> http://sourceforge.net/p/xbiblio/code/HEAD/tree/attic/citeproc-xsl/
>
> Bruce
>
> On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 2:37 PM, Matthew Roth <matthew.g.r...@yale.edu>
> wrote:
> > Hi List, [NOTE that this is a cross post from the MODS listserv[0]--this
> > maybe a better place to post] After careful consideration over the past
> > several months our web application has decided to store our citations in
> > MODs as opposed to our propriety and often problematic relational
> structure.
> > Great news for sure. We are now able to generate EndNote files, RIS
> files,
> > BibTex files, DC, and MARCXML. With the latter two being less desired by
> our
> > end users. Ideally our board of directors and (more importantly) our end
> > users would like to generate formatted HTML citations in various formats.
> > For example, the way Google scholar will give the user the choice of MLA,
> > ALA, and Chicago. The problem looks to be that while there are several
> > leads, no available resource exists for a proper HTML transformation. The
> > most promising one is the citeproc project and the Citation Style
> > Language[1]. They have projects in various stages in multiple languages.
> > However, of the list I am only able to function in java, python, and
> > JavaScript. The problem to me is that most expect a JSON format that is
> not
> > too well documented--as best as I can tell, some of the discussions I've
> > come across on this format our several years old at this point. Only one
> > purports to work with MODs. citeproc-hs[2] a haskell library seems to
> have
> > once expected MODs, but 1. I am not familiar with haskell and two it
> appears
> > to not have been kept to date. I have not ruled it out completely, but
> need
> > to consult a primer on haskell first. The python library, citeproc-py[3]
> > claims to work with bibtex. However, they are still having issues with
> > UTF-8[4]. Additionally, either the mapping is off in their BibTex parser
> or
> > bibutils[5] is producing poor BibTex files from the inputted MODs files.
> > Finally, the library according to the README.rst[6] is still not ready
> for
> > production. Ideally, there would be an Xquery/XSL transformation that we
> > could call from our web application which is built upon exist-db[7]. I
> > suppose our next step may be writing our own transformation, however, it
> > seems like coming to this as a programmer and not a librarian I may not
> be
> > searching in all the right places. Do I need to write my own
> transformation,
> > or has the wheel already been created? Best,
> > Matt
> >
> > PS I apologize if I have misrepresented anything about CSL and the
> various
> > citeproc projects. I am still only a couple weeks old to this project.
> > [0]http://listserv.loc.gov/cgi-bin/wa?A1=ind1412&L=mods
> > [1]http://citationstyles.org/
> > [2]https://hackage.haskell.org/package/citeproc-hs
> > [3]https://github.com/brechtm/citeproc-py
> > [4]https://github.com/brechtm/citeproc-py/issues/25
> > [5]https://sourceforge.net/projects/bibutils/
> > [6]
> https://github.com/brechtm/citeproc-py/blob/master/README.rst#citeproc-py
> > [7]http://exist-db.org/exist/apps/homepage/index.html
> >
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