[referencer] CrossRef and Authors

John Spray jcspray at icculus.org
Sat Feb 23 04:55:44 EST 2008


On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 17:22 +0100, Michael Banck wrote:
> <contributors>
> 	<contributor first-author="true">
> 		<given_name>Glênisson</given_name>
> 		<surname>de Oliveira</surname>
> 	</contributor>
> </contributors>

Huh. It didn't used to do that.  I've added code to svn to interpret
these fields.  The crossref code is rather old and crusty at this point;
I would spend 5 minutes rewriting it in python if it weren't for it
needed to store the username/password.

> (As John remarked elsewhere CrossRef only seems to send the First
> Author)

By the way, those of you with university affiliations might consider
mentioning to crossref (via your library?) how annoying this is.
Specifically it's the OpenURL interface.

> I might try to get this working at some point, but maybe it is much
> easier for somebody else (John?) to get this implemented?
>
> As a side note, the .xsd for CrossRef is available from
> http://www.crossref.org/qrschema/crossref_query_output2.0.xsd, wouldn't
> it be possible to use one of the XML-munging libraries to just transform
> that to the Referencer XML? (As you can probably see, I am pretty
> ignorant when it comes to XML...)

Be my guest.

Cheers,
John




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