BioStor
Rod Page
put together BioStor http://biostor.org
The primary motivation for BioStor is to provide tools to locate
articles in the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL, http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/
). As most of us are probably aware, BHL doesn't have article-level
metadata for the vast majority of articles it has scanned. BioStor
tries to find articles in BHL using techniques ranging from reasonably
elegant (Smith-Waterman alignment on words to match titles) to down-
and-dirty regular expression matching.
BioStor supports the OpenURL standard, which means it can be used from
within EndNote and Zotero, for example (see http://biostor.org/endnote.php
and http://biostor.org/zotero.php ). Web sites that support COinS
(such as Drupal-based Scratchpads and EOL LifeDesks) can also be used
(see http://biostor.org/referrer.php ).
BioStor supports basic metadata editing (using reCAPTCHA rather than
user logins at this point), attempts to extract useful information
from the reference regarding taxonomy and geography, provides
overviews of author relationships, and supports EndNote XML and RIS
export.
It's very much a work in progress, but to get started you might like
to look at
Articles
http://biostor.org/reference/1
http://biostor.org/reference/4
http://biostor.org/reference/11
http://biostor.org/reference/12
http://biostor.org/reference/13
Authors
http://biostor.org/author/16
Journals
http://biostor.org/issn/0091-7958
Taxa
http://biostor.org/name/Eleutherodactylus%20bearsei
The database is pretty sparsely populated at present, but I'm looking
at adding many more references in bulk in the next few days.
Comments welcome (including "it sucks"). I'll try and write up what is
going on under the hood when I get a chance.
Regards
Rod