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On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Will Kurt <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I always think that Brown's FreeCite api is under utilized. > http://freecite.library.brown.edu/ > It's far from perfect, but I'm sure more use could be made of it. > > A few months back I threw together a copy/paste citation look-up with it: > CiteBox > http://willkurt.github.com/CiteBox/ > > Of course I don't think anyone is really making use of it, but I've > also done nothing to really promote it either ;) The FreeCite parser had major issues for a while with post-2000 dates, and I believe the installation at Brown still does, but, to judge by the GitHub activity (most active fork here: https://github.com/rsinger/free_cite/), some enterprising folks have picked it up after a period of apparent dormancy. This is great to see, and vital to any project that hopes to use its API for anything serious. By the way, the rarely-used XML representation of OpenURL ContextObjects that FreeCite produces is supported by Zotero as a full-fledged input format, a fact that might come in handy if you're hoping to have your API produce something that Zotero users can import. Avram UCLA Slavic, Zotero community dev