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  • From: Mike Linksvayer <ml AT gondwanaland.com>
  • To: acawiki-general AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [acawiki-general] CrossRef API
  • Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 22:10:49 -0700

On 08/21/2014 06:24 AM, Jodi Schneider wrote:
> It appears that CrossRef metadata is now available in new ways... What's
> the licensing? Could we use this for AcaWiki?
>
> Code for the CrossRef API is
> https://github.com/CrossRef/rest-api-doc/blob/master/rest_api.md
>
> Some more info
> http://blog.martinfenner.org/2014/07/24/dont-reinvent-the-wheel/
>
> Thoughts?

We could have an option for summary creation like the bibtex one, but
instead of providing some bibtex, user provides a DOI, which an
extension could ask CrossRef about and pre-populate new summary
accordingly. Someone would have to write this extension.

Searched and couldn't find anything about licensing. Clearly these facts
are free...

I read recently that an entry for every academic article is in-scope for
Wikidata; that could be another source to pull info from. Yes, it was at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Open#Open_bibliographic_and_citation_data_in_Wikidata
-- "Among other things, [
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Source_MetaData ]
aims to create Wikidata entries for as many academic articles as possible."

Mike




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