Better IETF, W3C Standards Metadata from SpecRef

mfhepp

Hi,
Zotero has good support for finding metadata for IETF standards (e.g. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2616). Unfortunately, it falls short in terms of all important W3C standards (like https://www.w3.org/TR/rdf11-concepts/).

Now, there is an easy way how Zotero could improve the automatic discovery of meta-data for Computer Science standards based on SpecRef.

SpecRef provides an API that returns a JSON representation of granular document meta-data for a large amount of specs, see

https://github.com/tobie/specref/blob/main/README.md#api

In particular, the reverse lookup API will be useful:

https://github.com/tobie/specref/blob/main/README.md#reverse-lookup

It takes the URL of a specification and returns all matching bibliographical data.

So Zotero could easily query SpecRef whenever a user tries to save a URL from the browser plugin (or otherwise).

For instance, https://api.specref.org/reverse-lookup?urls=https://www.w3.org/TR/rdf11-concepts/

will return

{
"https://www.w3.org/TR/rdf11-concepts/":
{
"authors": ["Richard Cyganiak", "David Wood", "Markus Lanthaler"],
"href": "https://www.w3.org/TR/rdf11-concepts/",
"title": "RDF 1.1 Concepts and Abstract Syntax",
"status": "REC",
"publisher": "W3C",
"deliveredBy": [
{
"url": "https://www.w3.org/2011/rdf-wg/",
"shortname": "rdf"
}],
"versions": ["rdf11-concepts-20140225", "rdf11-concepts-20140109", "rdf11-concepts-20131105", "rdf11-concepts-20130723", "rdf11-concepts-20130115", "rdf11-concepts-20120605", "rdf11-concepts-20110830"],
"id": "rdf11-concepts",
"date": "25 February 2014"
}
}