[Sigia-l] Google Scholar vs Citeseer and others

[Tanya Rabourn]

On Nov 21, 2004, at 5:56 PM, Karl Fast wrote:
>> Isn't there a public API/SDK for Google Scholar? These sound like
>> third party opportunities. Given its target, folks at universities
>> will quickly come up specialized front-end apps, I'd assume.
>
> I don't know about Google Scholar, but Citeseer is OAI compliant, so
> you can query all their metadata programmatically (you can even
> download it all as one big file).
>
>   http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/oai.html
>
> It doesn't look like Google has added any API support for Google
> Scholar. Not yet, at least.

I assume if they do then perhaps coming at it from the other direction 
would be possible?  Through Endnote I can search a variety of indexes 
and library catalogs and add references from there. They're using 
Z39.50.*  Endnote might be a Z39.50 client only and unable to consume 
resources via a web services API though (that would be a shame).

Relatedly, see the article in this month's issue of DLib mag, A 
Service-Oriented Framework for Bibliography Management 
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november04/canos/11canos.html

-Tanya

* From Endnote 7 for mac
"EndNote is able to provide access to these remote sources using an 
information retrieval protocol called 'Z39.50.' Z39.50 is widely 
supported by libraries and information providers around the world as a 
convenient method to access their library catalogs and reference 
databases.
EndNote stores the information necessary to connect to and search these 
online databases in individual connection files. Pre-configured 
connection files are provided for a number of these sources. If 
necessary, you can also customize or configure your own connections to 
Z39.50-compliant databases.
Copyright 2003 Thomson ISI ResearchSoft"