Re: [Connotea-discuss] Re: [Connotea-code-devel] web api

[Suresh K. <ss...@co...>]

Hi Ben,

Thank you; I would really benefit from your rough notes and sample code.

It is great that the web API is almost ready to go public; I am sure that  
it should soon lead to add-to-connotea buttons in bibliography programs  
like EndNote/JabRef/PBib etc.

I am mainly looking to make a little tool in Python/Perl that queries  
pubmed and perhaps some other sites as well, displays the results and  
sends the output to Connotea after some tagging; similar to ConClient but  
with the ability to tag multiple records at the same time and a more  
full-featured Pubmed interface using the possibilities of EUtils. I would  
also like to be able to search and suggest tag-collapses based on the  
proportion of shared references (both within my own collection, and  
perhaps also across the entire connotea tagspace) to prevent tag-bloat and  
find similar tags.

For collaborative reasons, I use Word and EndNote. I am not happy with  
EndNote's many limitations, but I do appreciate its tight and fairly clean  
integration with Word. So I am looking to mainly use Connotea and my  
little tool for reference management, and use EndNote mainly as a writing  
tool when actually composing manuscripts. My impression is that the  
reference management part is probably easier to code up based on one's own  
specifications and whims, it is the integration with many different  
writing tools that makes such software hard to write.

Also, once the web API become public, hopefully others with better  
software skills than mine will publish more powerful tools along the same  
lines...

Regards, Suresh



On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 04:28:40 -0500, Lund, Ben <B....@na...> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I can also send you some rough notes on how to use it, and some sample  
> code, if you like.
>
> We've got a lot of good feedback from the tentative release of the alpha  
> version, so we're almost ready to announce it and make the details  
> public. If any one else want to have a play with it before then, let me  
> know.
>
> Ta,
> Ben
>
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> Subject: [Connotea-discuss] Re: [Connotea-code-devel] web api
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>
> Suresh Krishna wrote:
>> I am looking for details on the alpha web API.
>>
>> If you can even tell me where to look in the source code, that would be
>> a  great start.
>
> Bibliotech/WebAPI.pm would be a good place to start. Each package name
> contains the action name and the HTTP verb (POST, GET, etc.) that is
> expected. Mostly it constitutes a wrapper into other parts of the code.
>
> Regards,
> Martin
>
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