[referencer] NASA ADS?

[John Spray]

There is an incomplete ADS plugin.  I wrote it a while back to resolve
DOIs to the ADS XML format.  However, I found that the XML output from
ADS has the problem that the <journal> field is full of other things.
For example, in [1] it's <journal>Journal of Applied Physics, Volume 89,
Issue 11, pp. 7269-7271 (2001).</journal>.  
 
Two possible fixes to this:
      * Pull the bibtex instead of  the XML.  In this case journals are
        provided as \apj style macros -- it would be necessary to import
        a lookup table for these into referencer.
      * Have ADS general something else: the "Preferred format..." link
        on article pages is a link like [2].  If a custom format string
        could be derived that gives us the information we want in the
        form that we want it, then the plugin would probably be more
        robust.  I have no idea how to write those format strings
        though.
      * Find out if this weird <journal> output is what ADS really
        intends, or if this is a bug they can fix on their end.

As you've noticed, the plugin isn't included in the release.  It can be
found in the referencer mercurial repository:
http://hg.icculus.org/jcspray/referencer/file/tip/plugins/ads.py

Happy hacking.

Cheers,
John


1. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?doi=10.1063%2F1.1358829&data_type=XML

2.  http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-abs_connect?bibcode=2001JAP....89.7269N&data_type=Custom&format=%5C%5Cbibitem%5B%25%5C2m%25%28y%29%5D%25%7BR%7D%20%25%5C8l%20%25%5CY,%25%5Cj,%25%5CV,%25%5Cp%5Cn&return_fmt=LONG&db_key=PHY&nocookieset=1