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Following on from my recent post about our shiny new nature.com OpenSearch service we just put up a cheatsheet for users. I'm posting about this here as this may also be of interest especially to those exploring how SRU and OpenSearch intersect.
The cheatsheet can be downloaded from our nature.com OpenSearch test page and is available in two forms:
Naurally, all comments welcome.
We're pleased to announce that a CrossRef working group has released a set of best practice recommendations for scholarly publishers producing RSS feeds.
Variations in practice amongst publisher feeds can be irritating for end-users, but they can be insurmountable for automated processes. RSS feeds are increasingly being consumed by knowledge discovery and data mining services. In these cases, variations in date formats, the practice of lumping all authors together in one
The recommendations intended to facilitate good practice in the production and provision of TOC RSS Feeds. The guidelines include general recommendations for good practice, specific recommendations on the use of RSS Modules and an example RSS TOC feed. Ultimately, we expect that industry wide adoption of these best practices will help drive more traffic to publisher web sites. Note that most of these recommendation can also be applied to non-TOC RSS feeds such as thematic feeds, automated search result feeds, etc.
The other day Noel O'Boyle wrote to tell me that he had updated the Ubiquity plug-in that we had developed in order to to make it work with the latest version of Firefox. The problem was, I had *also* updated the Ubiquity plug-in, but I hadn't really indicated to anybody how they could find updates to the plug-in. /me=embarrassed.
So it seemed time to provide a home for some of the prototypes and experiments that we've been developing at CrossRef. To that end, we have created a CrossRef Labs site. Here you can find links to various tools and services that either make it easier to use CrossRef services (e.g. Blog/Ubiquity plugins and OpenSearch Description files) or that serve to illustrate a concept that has been of interest to our members (InChI lookup, TOI-DOIs). Oh, yeah- and when we update these experiments, you should be able to find the updates on their respective pages. Sorry about that Noel...
Finally, I will quote from the CrossRef Labs home page:
"Most of the experiments linked to here are running on R&D equipment in a non-production environment. They may disappear without warning and/or perform erratically. If one of them isn't working for some reason, come back later and try again."
Have fun.
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Following up on my earlier posts here about the structured search technologies OpenSearch and SRU, I wanted to reference three recent posts on our web publishing blog Nascent which discuss our new nature.com OpenSearch service:
