[referencer] Preliminary medline support (first python plugin)

[Aurélien Naldi]

On jeu, 2007-12-20 at 00:21 +0000, John Spray wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> Since a few people have previously expressed an interest in getting
> involved with supporting more metadata scraping, I thought I'd mention
> what I'm working on.  There is now code in subversion which fetches
> metadata from documents on medline via python.  Referencer is written in
> C++, which means that this involved a sorta-kinda python plugin
> framework.  Existing crossref and arxiv code will be somehow munged into
> this framework so that things get into a nice extensible state.
> 
> Any interested developers should check out src/PluginManager.[Ch] to see
> where I've got to so far.

Hi,

This is just wonderfull, thanks a LOT for working on this!
It seems to work fine on my list, but I still have a few quirks to
report ;)

* it crashes whenever I try to "get metadata" on several entries at once
* it crashes reproductibly on one specific paper, which I can find on
pubmed without a problem. Its DOI is: 10.1038/ni1500


I don't have much to look at the code right now, but the addition of a
python plugin system looks like a great news to me. Is it limited to
metadata fetching ? Do you have any kind of great plan for it in mind ?


Best regards.

-- 
Aurelien Naldi