[Bioc-devel] EXTERNAL: Accessing package citation info programmatically without running R?

[Ryan Thompson]

I wasn't specific about what I meant by "structured" because I'm not
certain what kind of citation data types CiteAs can handle, though I'd
assume bibtex would probably be fine. It's possible that the unprocessed
CITATION file might also be good enough (I'm not familiar with the format).

On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 11:57 AM Marcel Ramos <Marcel.Ramos at roswellpark.org>
wrote:

> Hi Ryan,
>
> Thanks for pointing this out.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by "structured" or "format". We do have
> public facing citations
> which can be found at:
>
> http://bioconductor.org/packages/3.7/bioc/citations/BiocFileCache/citation.html
>
> (Thanks Lori for locating these pages!)
>
>
> And even with a web-browsable git repository (as you mentioned), one
> would still only be able
> to get the "unprocessed" CITATION file. The best way to programmatically
> get these at the moment
> is through the git repository via:
>
> git archive
> --remote=git at git.bioconductor.org:packages/MultiAssayExperiment.git \
>    HEAD inst/CITATION | tar -xO inst/CITATION > citation.txt
>
> although, we would have to provide the CiteAs service with a key for
> read-only access.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Marcel
>
>
> On 04/17/2018 12:44 PM, Ryan Thompson wrote:
> > There's a nice online tool called CiteAs which tries to figure out the
> > proper citation for a given URL. I've recently helped the author to add
> > support for extracting the DOI from Bioconductor package information
> pages:
> > https://github.com/Impactstory/citeas-api/issues/12
> >
> > This is a good start, but is suboptimal, since some many packages have
> > actual published articles which should be used as the canonical citation
> > instead of the package's URL. However, I'm not sure how to get this
> > citation information in a structured format short of running R and
> > installing the package, which isn't really an option for a web service
> like
> > this, which wants to return a result quickly. Does anyone know a good way
> > to access this info?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Ryan Thompson
> >
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