Hi Ryan,
Thanks for pointing this out.
I'm not sure what you mean by "structured" or "format". We do have
public facing citations
which can be found at:
http://bioconductor.org/packages/3.7/bioc/citations/BiocFileCache/citation.html
(Thanks Lori for locating these pages!)
And even with a web-browsable git repository (as you mentioned), one
would still only be able
to get the "unprocessed" CITATION file. The best way to programmatically
get these at the moment
is through the git repository via:
git archive
--remote=git at git.bioconductor.org:packages/MultiAssayExperiment.git \
HEAD inst/CITATION | tar -xO inst/CITATION > citation.txt
although, we would have to provide the CiteAs service with a key for
read-only access.
Best regards,
Marcel
On 04/17/2018 12:44 PM, Ryan Thompson wrote:
There's a nice online tool called CiteAs which tries to figure out the
proper citation for a given URL. I've recently helped the author to add
support for extracting the DOI from Bioconductor package information
https://github.com/Impactstory/citeas-api/issues/12
This is a good start, but is suboptimal, since some many packages have
actual published articles which should be used as the canonical citation
instead of the package's URL. However, I'm not sure how to get this
citation information in a structured format short of running R and
installing the package, which isn't really an option for a web service
this, which wants to return a result quickly. Does anyone know a good way
to access this info?
Thanks,
Ryan Thompson
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