Upgrade StorageCitation Finders
Hi
I'm not sure whether to frame this as a feature request or as a shoutout to whoever might be willing to write a plugin that finds citations (details below). on the other hand, if someone's already worked this out, I would be grateful if you'd tell me how you go about solving this.
problem statement: sometimes you want to parse text citations to get items that you want to add to zotero. typically this happens while looking for cross-references.
the current solution that keeps coming up is anystyle.
anystyle is great, but it's just a parser. it has no way of correcting a citation that is misshapen, it does not extract any data that isn't in the citation itself.
there used to be, and still is(ish), an app called 'citation-finder' at hubmed.org (https://citation-finder.hubmed.org) which does something a bit cooler, by actually searching through pubmed (in this case) to find actual citations that match. the advantage is that it can now get a hold of url/doi/other identifier data that frequently isn't in the citation.
what this means is that post-import from hubmed, one can actually click to the original article, look for full-text etc.
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so what I think would be useful would be any of the following:
- something that allows users to search the internet or selected databases _using the title/authornames/year_ or the item to find matching articles.
- a plugin that makes the anystyle process or the hubmed process fit into zotero. either via opening up a window where one could paste a list of citations, or even searching using a note (although I foresee lots of housekeeping for that solution).
not being a particularly technical person, I don't know what this would entail from a coding pov. the hubmed citation finder is currently archived and I don't think it's going to get continuing support, but I'm surprised that noone has tried to duplicate that functionality either in anystyle or elsewhere.
I'm not sure whether to frame this as a feature request or as a shoutout to whoever might be willing to write a plugin that finds citations (details below). on the other hand, if someone's already worked this out, I would be grateful if you'd tell me how you go about solving this.
problem statement: sometimes you want to parse text citations to get items that you want to add to zotero. typically this happens while looking for cross-references.
the current solution that keeps coming up is anystyle.
anystyle is great, but it's just a parser. it has no way of correcting a citation that is misshapen, it does not extract any data that isn't in the citation itself.
there used to be, and still is(ish), an app called 'citation-finder' at hubmed.org (https://citation-finder.hubmed.org) which does something a bit cooler, by actually searching through pubmed (in this case) to find actual citations that match. the advantage is that it can now get a hold of url/doi/other identifier data that frequently isn't in the citation.
what this means is that post-import from hubmed, one can actually click to the original article, look for full-text etc.
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so what I think would be useful would be any of the following:
- something that allows users to search the internet or selected databases _using the title/authornames/year_ or the item to find matching articles.
- a plugin that makes the anystyle process or the hubmed process fit into zotero. either via opening up a window where one could paste a list of citations, or even searching using a note (although I foresee lots of housekeeping for that solution).
not being a particularly technical person, I don't know what this would entail from a coding pov. the hubmed citation finder is currently archived and I don't think it's going to get continuing support, but I'm surprised that noone has tried to duplicate that functionality either in anystyle or elsewhere.