Defrosting the Digital Library: Bibliographic Tools for the Next Generation Web

Duncan Hull; Steve R. Pettifer; Douglas B. Kell

doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000204

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Defrosting the Digital Library: Bibliographic Tools for the Next Generation Web

Duncan Hull ,

* E-mail: duncan.hull@cs.man.ac.uk

Affiliations School of Chemistry, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, The Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
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Steve R. Pettifer,

Affiliations The Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, School of Computer Science, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
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Douglas B. Kell

Affiliations School of Chemistry, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, The Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
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Defrosting the Digital Library: Bibliographic Tools for the Next Generation Web

Duncan Hull,
Steve R. Pettifer,
Douglas B. Kell

Published: October 31, 2008
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000204

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re: screen-scraping metadata

Posted by gbilder on 17 Nov 2008 at 14:35 GMT

I should just note that screen-scraping of landing pages is indeed fragile and error-prone- which is why CrossRef provides a number of APIs (OpenURL, OAI-PMH) for querying the metadata directly. Info can be found on our site.

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