Re: [Treebase-devel] searches by doi

[William P. <wil...@ya...>]

On May 13, 2012, at 7:52 AM, Roderic Page wrote:

> This was one of the motivations behind setting up the TreeBASE group in Mendeley http://www.mendeley.com/groups/734351/treebase/ .
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> The idea was to consume TreeBASE papers, then edit the metadata (adding DOIs, PMIDs, etc.). I cleaned up a lot of papers from 2010 and earlier (there were some pretty spectacular examples of references differing wildly from what authors submitted (e.g., if paper ended up in different journal).
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> Ideally this group would be automatically populated by consuming a feed from TreeBASE, and any edits made in Mendeley could be harvested by TreeBASE. Wouldn't take long to set this up. Limiting factor is people taking time to clean up references, I think I'm the only one of the 140 members of the group to do this :(
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> Regards
> 
> Rod

Indeed, we need to harvest the edited files back into TreeBASE. And Mendeley's API should rich enough to perform all these tasks: i.e. both auto-creation of new Mendeley records from TreeBASE and capturing new edits back into TreeBASE. This was in our last grant proposal, I think.

Currently, TreeBASE allows the submitter to edit the citation at any future time, but nobody else. With an open Mendeley group, are there concerns about mischievous edits?

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