[OWW-SC] Biblio extension to support arXiv.org e-prints

[Julius B. Lucks]

Hey Bill,

Do you maintain the biblio extension?  As I think I mentioned before,  
I am writing an API that gives full programmatic access to all of the  
e-prints on arXiv.org.  While this has primarily been used as a  
physics/math/computer science venue, there is a new, but growing  
quantitative biology (q-bio) section.  In fact, Nature was recently  
inspired by the arXiv.org e-print model to start a similar e-print  
service themselves.

In any case, I am certainly an OWW user that links to arXiv e-prints  
all the time, and I suspect there will be more and more as time goes  
on.  The API is simple in design, and I actually used the NCBI APIs  
as a starting point, so there should be some similarity.  The results  
are returned in Atom 1.0 with some extensions for arXiv-specific  
metadata.

How easy/hard is it to add support for arXiv e-prints in the biblio  
extension?  I imagine instead of putting the pmid, you put the  
arxivid which looks something like q-bio/0703028 or just 0708.2038  
(for the new style id's).  The api is in very active development, and  
we plan to do an alpha release soon, hopefully within the next couple  
of weeks.  I can send more details and documentation as well.

Cheers,

Julius

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On Oct 9, 2007, at 6:55 PM, Bill F wrote:

> Accession Numbers and NCBI Lookup for Biblio Extension to OpenWetWare
>
> I'm looking into adding GenBank Accession Number lookup, a feature  
> which has been mentioned in the past. To do this, I need to know  
> what the set of information from GenBank would be that people would  
> like to see available.
>
> This is a cop of the the current comment on the Software/Features  
> page:
> (http://openwetware.org/wiki/OpenWetWare:Software/Feature_requests )
> Initially, this might be just an extension to Biblio to allow  
> referencing by accession number. Eventually, this could pull in  
> info from databases.
> See also http://blogs.nature.com/wp/nascent/2007/07/ 
> scientific_blogging_p
>
> NCBI has an example of the full record they maintain:
>
>                         http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Sitemap/ 
> samplerecord.html
>
> Would a pointer to a similar page for a specific accession number  
> be what's needed?
>
> The actual accession number for the example record is:
>
> "U49845".
>
> There's an additional version number on he next line:
>
> "U49845.1 GI:1293613".
>
> Does the version number generally get used in citations or is the  
> Accession Number adequate?
>
> Using the Accession number, I can point the Biblio reference to the  
> NCBI page (similar to the example) for that particular number. Is  
> the version number also needed?
>
>
> Thanks.
>
> Bill Flanagan
> OpenWetWare.org
>
>
>
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