After going through a few iterations for maintaining publications data with
the Citation Index, we've landed on a solution we're generally happy with.

My recommendation is to not write custom code for citation formats. You'll
be limited to only the formats you write code for and for only the types of
works you consider. You'll start with APA and articles, books, and
chapters, and then realize you need to add IEEE format, consider editors
better, and add conference proceedings and reports. Then what do you do
with persistent identifiers for different formats and also adhere to the
citation formats? So things then quickly get messy and confusing. Others
have already thought through all of this for many more citation formats.

And then also discard the notion that you'll just use BibTeX. Yes, it is a
structured data format that has been in use a long time. BibTeX might be a
necessary output format. We add BibTeX to ORCID records as the only
structured data which can be added for a work. BibTeX has too many
non-standard flavors, is old to the point that too many types of works get
boiled down to misc, has odd formatting and parsing rules, and software
libraries which have confusing interfaces (even when very well done)
focused on outputting formatted bibliographies. BibTeX is just not enough
to support current needs for managing the necessary data and creating
properly formatted citations.

Instead consider using CSL-JSON (Citeproc) as your data format:
https://citeproc-js.readthedocs.io/en/latest/csl-json/markup.html

You can then easily output over 1,000 citation styles:
https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles
Lots to recommend CSL including the documentation and maintainers.

Click the "cite it" links for any publication here to see an example of how
we're able to output in several different formats:
https://ci.lib.ncsu.edu/profiles/kdaniel

I'll also add that all of this publications data from all sources is messy.
Part of what CSL has allowed us to do is have a common standard to map
other data sources to. The CSL styles then adjust based on whether
particular data is present or not for the type of work given. I could write
a lot more about how our approach has embraced the mess and focused on what
data is necessary to find a work rather than completely filling out
citation formats.

Jason

On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 5:14 AM Thomas San Filippo <
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> Thanks, Deborah. I'd be really interested in seeing that super-messy
> turn-it-to-APA code if you've got it on GitHub or something.
>
>
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> On 1/20/20 8:44 PM, Fitchett, Deborah wrote:
> > We use Elements as our research information system. We also had some
> existing staff profile pages (based on Sharepoint). Our ITS was grabbing
> content direct from the Elements database to insert on the profile pages, I
> said “…Have you considered using the API?” and they said “…There’s an API?”
> so long story short I wrote some code that took the staff member’s ID,
> queried the API, and returned a bunch of html listing their research
> outputs in beautiful APA referencing format, which the profile pages ingest
> by, presumably, magic.
> >
> > Over the years it’s sporadically had various minor issues (eg an
> apparently-minor change to the API structure; or a stubborn caching issue
> on the ITS side) and it was often slow especially for the most prolific
> researchers (I only got around to adding caching functionality last year)
> so all in all I’m really glad we’re adding the Discovery module in Elements
> that will do this all properly so I don’t have to maintain the thing.
> >
> > It’s so much fun coding new stuff, it’s just sad that that’s only maybe
> 10% of the total lifetime work… ☺
> >
> > Anyway, short version: the API side of it was pretty straight-forward
> and even version updates weren’t too much of a hassle to resolve; the
> turning-it-into-APA involved some super messy code but was highly stable;
> the integration into the profiles was probably the hard part but
> fortunately not my problem.
> >
> > Deborah
> >
> > From: Code for Libraries <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Thomas
> San Filippo
> > Sent: Saturday, 18 January 2020 3:10 AM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] API feeding faculty publication profiles
> >
> > We would also be very interested, even if you're not health/medical.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> >
> > *Thomas San Filippo*
> > /Systems and Educational Technology Liaison/
> >
> > Pronouns: he/him/his; they/them/their(s)
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> > Madeleine Clark Wallace Library
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> > 26 E. Main Street, Norton, MA 02766 <https://goo.gl/maps/d5JvoKZUEXy<
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> > On 1/16/20 4:22 PM, Elizabeth Huggins wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> My library is looking at platforms for faculty publication profiles. If
> >> you’re working at health sciences or medical library that uses an API to
> >> feed publications into faculty profiles, I would love to hear from you.
> >> Please email me directly at [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>.
> >>
> >>
> >> Thank you,
> >>
> >> Elizabeth Huggins
> >>
> >> Elizabeth Huggins
> >> MALIS '11
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