[referencer] Re: Plugin for fetching data from Isi-WebOfScience

[Michael Banck]

On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 01:43:05PM +0100, Mario Castro wrote:
> > The way you included it inline seems to have introduced some spurious
> > extra line wrappings.  It is probably better to attach it or put it up
> > somewhere on the web for people to grab it.
> >
> I don't know how to attach it, but here I try it again gzipped.

Ah, worked much better now!

> > I wonder, the above URL looks like a session id, can this work for
> > anybody else than you?
> >
> 
> That number should be random, but I have founded that after the query that
> number is changed by the server, so it is irrelevant.
> 
> Note that you need a subscription to isi-wos in order to get this plugin
> work. This is automatic if your ip belongs to the range of your university.
> However, I have checked that if you configure the proxy options in
> referencer works perfectly with my plugin.

Why is the plugin not hooking into the "Get Metadata" mechanism?  On the
other hand, the plugin seems to require title, author and year, so if
all you have is a DOI, you'd need to hit Get Metadata twice I guess,
which is not very intuitive, either.


Michael