This tool might be useful for quick one-off referencing, but I feel that most will probably be better off using a proper citation manager like the open-source Zotero.
oersted · 1h ago
Is an open-source library being used for this? Or can you describe the methods you use? I worked on this and related problems around extracting features from paper PDFs, we could all learn from how you did it.
Generally, an About page is always appreciated for such web tools with minimal UX, particularly when it's rather automagical.
afandian · 58m ago
In this case it's querying the relevant DOI registration agency's API for the metadata (statistically that's likely Crossref) that the publisher themselves registered. So it doesn't look like there's any extraction going on here.
Could you share _your_ work though? It's always interesting to see new approaches to metadata.
Traditionally, it was a bit of a one-way street (data comes from publisher) but there's some interesting work being done by COMET [0] and (separately) OpenAlex [1] around cleanup of the publisher-supplied data within the community.
(I used to work at Crossref; am a little involved with COMET)
You can look at the network requests to see what it's doing. It's querying the OpenCitations database followed by the DOI.org content negotiation endpoint, which 302's to Crossref (or whoever the relevant DOI registration agency is).
Generally, an About page is always appreciated for such web tools with minimal UX, particularly when it's rather automagical.
Could you share _your_ work though? It's always interesting to see new approaches to metadata.
Traditionally, it was a bit of a one-way street (data comes from publisher) but there's some interesting work being done by COMET [0] and (separately) OpenAlex [1] around cleanup of the publisher-supplied data within the community.
(I used to work at Crossref; am a little involved with COMET)
[0] https://www.cometadata.org/
[1] https://openalex.org/
More info on content negotiation:
https://citation.doi.org/