[referencer] More Thoughts on Referencer

[Carlos Moffat]

On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 14:54 +0100, John Spray wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 21:22 +0000, Carlos Moffat wrote:
> > 1) Although DOI lookup is really great, many papers are not available
> > that way. These days I'm using google scholar and its 'Import into
> > BibTex' feature to copy and paste into pybliographer. Problem is,
> > referencer doesn't seem to have a way to copy 'native' bibtex code into
> > the database. This would be greatly appreciated. Of course, a direct
> > query and import using Google Scholar would be just fantastic. 
> 
> Bibtex pasting shouldn't be too difficult, and is a likely candidate for
> a new feature in the next release.  Interfacing with google scholar
> would be interesting, although I'm not aware of google providing a
> public API for this kind of thing.
> 
> 
> > 2) Although I like the icon view, is not very useful as it only displays
> > the key. Any way extra info could be displayed, maybe when hovering with
> > the mouse over the file, clicking on it,  or something? 
> 
> The GtkIconView used for this is quite limited, and tends to become quite problematic when displaying anything more than short strings.  Displaying extra information as a tooltip is a good idea, I will look into it.
> 
> > 
> > 3) I haven't checked very carefully, but some of the DOI lookups give
> > the wrong results. For example 10.1002/joc.798 gives the right
> > title/journal/year but only lists one author (it has three).
> 
> The single-author problem is related to the way crossref.org supply the metadata -- the files they provide actually only include one author.  This would be fixed in the future with a switch to the OAI-PMH protocol for metadata harvesting.  When that happens more databases will be supported as well.  Implementing solid OAI-PMH support will take a bit of time.
> 
> Thanks for the feedback,
> John
> 
> 
> 

Sounds great. 

Cheers,
Carlos