API object seems to export all citation-relevant metadata, apart from the year.

[Anaphory]

I have a need to import Glottolog into a BibTeX-like object. I noticed that I can get nearly all of the usual fields from attributes in the pyglottolog.Glottolog object, apart from the year:

Source(
    citekey="glottolog{:}".format(to_alphanumeric(glottolog.describe())),
    genre="book",
    address=glottolog.dataset_metadata.publisher.place,
    author=" and ".join(e.name for e in glottolog.current_editors)
    howpublished="Online",
    publisher=glottolog.dataset_metadata.publisher.name,
    title="Glottolog {:}".format(glottolog.describe()),
    url=glottolog.dataset_metadata.url,
    abstract=glottolog.dataset_metadata.description,
    year="????",
    eprint="doi: {:}".format(glottolog.publication.zenodo.doi),
)

For the year, I apparently need something like

import pyglottolog.metadata
pyglottolog.metadata.get_edition(repos=glottolog)["year"]

(where to my surprise, glottolog is the API object, not its .repos attribute) which seems a bit roundabout compared to the other attributes.

Did I miss something?

[xrotwang]

Sorry for late reply, just back from vacation.

From my POV, bibliographic metadata is still a bit of a mess - in general. And while we give explicit citation recommendations at https://github.com/glottolog/glottolog/releases , I'd say the essential piece of info is the DOI. Thus, I'd personally just get the BibTeX

• from Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/record/6578297/export/hx

  @dataset{harald_hammarstrom_2022_6578297,
  author       = {Harald Hammarström and
                Robert Forkel and
                Martin Haspelmath and
                Sebastian Bank},
  title        = {glottolog/glottolog: Glottolog database 4.6},
  month        = may,
  year         = 2022,
  publisher    = {Zenodo},
  version      = {v4.6},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.6578297},
  url          = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6578297}
  }

• or from a service like doi2.bib.org or similar

  @misc{https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6578297,
  doi = {10.5281/ZENODO.6578297},
  url = {https://zenodo.org/record/6578297},
  author = {Hammarstr\"{o}m,  Harald and Forkel,  Robert and Haspelmath,  Martin and Bank,  Sebastian},
  keywords = {linguistics},
  title = {glottolog/glottolog: Glottolog database 4.6},
  publisher = {Zenodo},
  year = {2022},
  copyright = {Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International}
  }