Integration with Wikimedia

[Daniel-Mietchen]

Hi, we're working on a similar project that attempts to highlight the openness of references cited on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites (cf. https://github.com/wpoa/OA-signalling ).

We plan to query CrossRef's API for licensing information (as per https://github.com/CrossRef/rest-api-doc/blob/master/rest_api.md ).

We are aware of at least one effort going in a similar direction — PLOS' Rich citations.

Pinging @notconfusing @wrought @klortho @gbilder.

[RobSullivan]

Hi,

This API from Core also might be of interest to you http://core.ac.uk/intro/api

[Daniel-Mietchen]

Thanks. The Core API does not offer article-level licensing information at the moment, so we don't use it for the OA signalling project. But we're keeping an eye on it, and there is a related project that uses it to identify free-to-read papers and surface them to Wikipedia editors, so that they can make use of that information.

[RobSullivan]

Thanks for sharing your project, I had a look and it's really interesting. Let me know if I can help if you'd like to integrate pmc-ref with yours, or if you have suggestions for new API endpoint I'd love to hear what would be useful to you.

[Daniel-Mietchen]

I'd certainly like to see the following expansion of pmc-ref's functionality:

• broader coverage of DOIs
• inclusion of licensing information
• possibility to run pmc-ref over Wikipedia articles and to get the results (e.g. via your API) on a per-reference basis, so that we can use it as a basis for marking the references by their openness.

We plan to have all that in our toolset eventually, but we're not there yet, and help on the way is greatly appreciated.

[RobSullivan]

Thanks, Daniel. Agree that broader coverage of DOIs is needed.