On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Will Kurt <wckurt_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> I always think that Brown's FreeCite api is under utilized.
> http://freecite.library.brown.edu/
> It's far from perfect, but I'm sure more use could be made of it.
>
> A few months back I threw together a copy/paste citation look-up with it:
> CiteBox
> http://willkurt.github.com/CiteBox/
>
> Of course I don't think anyone is really making use of it, but I've
> also done nothing to really promote it either ;)
The FreeCite parser had major issues for a while with post-2000 dates,
and I believe the installation at Brown still does, but, to judge by
the GitHub activity (most active fork here:
https://github.com/rsinger/free_cite/), some enterprising folks have
picked it up after a period of apparent dormancy. This is great to
see, and vital to any project that hopes to use its API for anything
serious.
By the way, the rarely-used XML representation of OpenURL
ContextObjects that FreeCite produces is supported by Zotero as a
full-fledged input format, a fact that might come in handy if you're
hoping to have your API produce something that Zotero users can
import.
Avram
UCLA Slavic, Zotero community dev
Received on Thu Oct 13 2011 - 19:43:46 EDT