Eric,

EBSCO gets index data from the Code4Lib Journal. I'm cc-ing the editorial
board in the hopes that somebody will be able to tell you how to get ahold
of the metadata.

-Jodi

On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 12:12 PM Eric Lease Morgan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> How is Code4Lib Journal indexed? What software is used, and more
> specifically, what characteristics of each article are included in the
> index?
>
> Our journal is pretty cool, but as a library-related journal, I think it
> can be better. For example, what are the various indexed fields? Maybe we
> can support faceted browsing? Search results are returned in a very
> narrative form -- a format this is not very computable. If search results
> were in some sort of columnar format (TSV, CSV, etc.) sorting and grouping
> would be possible as well as analysis.
>
> Recently, I have been playing a lot with natural language processing and
> this has resulted in the extraction of statistically significant keywords,
> named entities, parts-of-speech, and even the identification of sentences
> matching a given grammar. All of these things lend themselves to inputs for
> machine learning processes. In turn, the results of all these things can
> re-incorporated into an index of Code4Lib. Thus the index not only supports
> find & get but also analysis. For a good time, I'd like to give this a go,
> just as an experiment.
>
> Is there someplace where I can download a rudimentary metadata file of all
> Code4Lib articles? At the least, I hope such a metadata file includes
> fields such as:
>
>   * author(s)
>   * title
>   * date
>   * abstract
>   * link to full text
>   * issue
>
> Is there a place where I can get such metadata?
>
> --
> Eric Morgan
>