API Display Policy question

[Bruno Vellutini]

Dear Martin,

I created a plugin to the search engine DuckDuckGo using the PLOS Search API. It uses the api to return the top 5 research articles from PLOS that match the user query. Results are shown in an "instant answer" box above more general results (their goodies page shows more examples). This is a demo snapshot of the functionality:

I included the line "Data Provided by PLOS" on the top of the results as described in the API Display Policy. However, to make the instant box as clean as possible they suggested removing the attribution line and discussing an alternative way of attributing the data provision (the "More at PLOS" at the bottom is always displayed and links to the remaining articles related to the query).

You can check the whole discussion on this pull request. I think they tried to contact PLOS about it, but I don't know the outcome.

So, I wanted to ask you if removing the attribution line from the top is acceptable for PLOS policies. Maybe you can join the discussion directly there?

It has moved from #153 to the pull request #265, so you can comment on the latter.

Thank you for your attention!

Bruno

ps: I'm not affiliated to DuckDuckGo in any manner

[Martin Fenner]

Bruno,

thanks for your interest in the PLOS Search API. I'm responsible for the PLOS ALM API, so I leave it up to Rich Cave or Joe Osowski to answer your questions.

Best,

Martin

Am 19.10.2013 um 11:48 schrieb Bruno Vellutini <orga...@gmail.com<mailto:orga...@gmail.com>>:


Dear Martin,

I created a plugin to the search engine DuckDuckGo<https://duckduckgo.com/> using the PLOS Search API. It uses the api to return the top 5 research articles from PLOS that match the user query. Results are shown in an "instant answer" box above more general results (their goodies page<https://duckduckgo.com/goodies> shows more examples). This is a demo snapshot of the functionality:


[https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/361179/521483/2c675f18-bfab-11e2-8b54-1a9f2670bf4a.png]<https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/361179/521483/2c675f18-bfab-11e2-8b54-1a9f2670bf4a.png>

I included the line "Data Provided by PLOS" on the top of the results as described in the API Display Policy<http://api.plos.org/api-display-policy/>. However, to make the instant box as clean as possible they suggested removing the attribution line and discussing an alternative way of attributing the data provision (the "More at PLOS" at the bottom is always displayed and links to the remaining articles related to the query).

You can check the whole discussion on this pull request<https://github.com/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-spice/pull/153>. I think they tried to contact PLOS about it, but I don't know the outcome.

So, I wanted to ask you if removing the attribution line from the top is acceptable for PLOS policies. Maybe you can join the discussion directly there?

It has moved from #153<https://github.com/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-spice/pull/153> to the pull request #265<https://github.com/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-spice/pull/265>, so you can comment on the latter.

Thank you for your attention!

Bruno

ps: I'm not affiliated to DuckDuckGo in any manner

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[Rich]

Hi Bruno,

I've reviewed your request with others at PLOS. Short answer: It's ok to remove the attribution line in your use case.

Long answer:  Search isn’t really use (and so attribution is not really necessary and/or is obvious since the results all come up PLOS). Also, the "more" line points the searcher to PLOS, but that isn’t attribution. And in any case, the use of the actual content (v. the title or DDG results headlines) would require attribution.

Best
Rich