[Bioc-devel] EXTERNAL: Accessing package citation info programmatically without running R?

I wasn't specific about what I meant by "structured" because I'm not
certain what kind of citation data types CiteAs can handle, though I'd
assume bibtex would probably be fine. It's possible that the unprocessed
CITATION file might also be good enough (I'm not familiar with the format).

On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 11:57 AM Marcel Ramos <
Marcel.Ramos at roswellpark.org> wrote:

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

pages:

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

like

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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