Finally, Citation.js supports DOIs. It took a while, but it’s finally there. One big ‘but’: synchronous fetching doesn’t work in Chrome. I’m still looking into that, but I should be recommending you to use Cite.async() anyway. Also in this blog post: more stability in Cite#get(), a welcome byproduct of using the DOI API, and looking forward (again). DOI support So, DOIs. That was (and is) a though one. Let me guide you through the process.
I got to make photographs of pre-made specimens with a microscope, and I wanted to show some of them. This is part one of a longer series; there were a lot of specimens. Below are details of the cross section of a basswood stem. Detail Outer layer Center Human artery tissue. Human bone tissue (with some unidentified dark stuff). More next week!
I worked on updates for Citation.js in the past few weeks, and I thought I'd go over them in this post. Async First of all, Citation.js now has support for asynchronous parsing, so it won't lag your app as much when it uses e.g. the Wikidata API. This is good, as synchronous requests are not only blocking your app, but also deprecated in most major browsers.
My new homepage is finally finished (for now). I say finally, because it has taken a while before it actually felt done. You know how the first 90% of the work takes 90% of the time, but the last 10% of the work takes another 90% of the time? I just had to finish writing a single, small piece of text and it would be complete, but it took about 2 weeks.
Originally posted on the ContentMine blog. Lars Willighagen, orcid:0000-0002-4751-4637 Final Report of my fellowship at the ContentMine. Proposal My proposal was to extract facts about various conifer species by analysing text from papers with software suited for analysing text and the tools provided by the ContentMine. These facts were then to be converted into JSON, and then viewable with an HTML (+CSS/JS) interface.
Citation.js now supports BibJSON. How I did that without actually updating Citation.js? Well, apparently I supported it all along. I've supported the quickscrape output format since July last year, and that turned out to be BibJSON. How convenient. I'll update the demo and docs to reflect this revelation (currently it just says "quickscrape's JSON scheme"), and, now that I can find actual documentation, some improvements to the parser.
When I started programming a few years ago, one of my first projects was linked to a project for school. Our team was making a presentation, and at some point I decided I wanted to program it myself, for the web. This resulted in the version of a project which, to this day, doesn't have a name (but soon will have). After a few months I wanted to expand this.
A few weeks ago I published version 0.2.11 of Citation.js. The main change was the addition of jQuery.Citation.js, updated for version 2 of Citation.js. jQuery.Citation.js is a small jQuery plugin to build simple forms where you can fill in metadata, which gets translated to CSL-JSON. The configuration options are currently quite limited, so it only really works as a demo for Citation.js itself.
This week, the big achievement is the addition of a multi-step form to add the semantic triples from last week to Wikidata with QuickStatements, which we talked about before too. The new '+' icon in table rows now links to a page where you can curate the statement and add Wikidata IDs where necessary. At the last step, you get a table of the existing data, the added identifiers and soon their Wikidata label.
The new update (Citation.js v0.2.10) doesn't have a big impact on the API, but a lot has changed in the back end. ("back end" as in the helper functions that are called when the API is used.) First of all, there is Travis build tests now. It doesn't have edge test cases yet, but it covers the basics. Testing the basic specs The main thing is the new BibTeX I/O system. It isn't completely new, but a lot has changed.
