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On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 07:18:42PM -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote: > Referencer relies on citation information from crossref.org, but (for at least > some journals) this provides seriously incomplete information. Consider the > following crossref.org query result: > > <?xml version = "1.0" encoding = "UTF-8"?> > <crossref_result version="2.0" xmlns="http://www.crossref.org/qrschema/2.0"; > xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; > xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.crossref.org/qrschema/2.0 > http://www.crossref.org/qrschema/crossref_query_output2.0.xsd";> > > <query_result> > <head> > <email_address>[EMAIL PROTECTED]</email_address> > <doi_batch_id>w001</doi_batch_id> > </head> > <body> > > <query key="555-555" status="resolved"> > <doi > type="journal_article">10.1016/j.cognition.2004.06.002</doi> > <issn type="print">00100277</issn> > <journal_title>Cognition</journal_title> > <author>ZWAAN</author> > <volume>94</volume> > <issue>2</issue> > <first_page>B35</first_page> > <year>2004</year> > <publication_type>full_text</publication_type> > <article_title>Lateralization of object-shape > information in semantic processing</article_title> > </query> > > </body> > </query_result> > > </crossref_result> > > This is a two-author article (as you may confirm by looking at > http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2004.06.002) but crossref.org has only > provided the last name of the first author. I need information on all authors > in my bibliographies, so I am going to have to fill them in by hand, which > makes referencer considerably less useful for me. > > Note that it has also failed to provide complete page information (there is a > first_page tag but no last_page tag). Again, I need this, and will have to > fill it in by hand :( Is this a general limitation of their metadata handling abilities, or just missing information in this specific case? > Referencer should therefore not rely on crossref.org as its sole > source of metadata given DOIs. In fact, having looked at that site a > bit I am not sure it should be used at all; it does not inspire trust. > For the above example, accurate information is available in RIS format > from sciencedirect.com, which is where you end up if you follow the > above dx.doi.org URL - yeah, Referencer would have to be taught how to > chase from the redirect to the citation download, for N different > academic publishers' websites, but it would be accurate! Where N > 100 ? I am not sure this is feasable. Maybe adding ISI Web of Science and/or PubMed for some generic (but still field of endeavor specific, mostly) might be possible for people with the access rights (in the case of Web of Science). I will forward this upstream (unless you have already or want to?). cheers, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
