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

[Reshma Shetty]

A couple questions

1) Do documents in arXiv.org have DOI's?

2) Are digital objects that have DOI's required to have a certain set
of information associated with them?  If yes, is there a way to access
that information (like you can for ISBNs and PubMed ID's)?

If yes to all of the above, would it make more sense to extend Biblio
to support references by DOI's rather just arXiv.org documents ...
i.e. go after the general solution.

Of course, I don't think that Genbank entries have DOI's so we'd still
need a specific solution for those.

-Reshma

On 10/10/07, Julius B. Lucks <julius at younglucks.com> wrote:
> 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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