API Instructions

Parse a citation

(POST) http://freecite.library.brown.edu/citations/create

Required argument: citation or citation[] - The string(s) to parse.
Header: Accept: text/xml

Returns a list of parsed citations in xml format. Each parsed citation includes a ContextObject with the citation as the referent.

Status code: 201

Examples

Using Ruby:

require 'net/http'

Net::HTTP.start('localhost', 3000) do |http|
  response = http.post('/citations/create',
    'citation=A. Bookstein and S. T. Klein,  \
    Detecting content-bearing words by serial clustering,  \
    Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference \
    on Research and Development in Information Retrieval,   \
    pp. 319327,   1995.',
    'Accept' => 'text/xml')

  puts "Code: #{response.code}"
  puts "Message: #{response.message}"
  puts "Body:\n #{response.body}"
end

Using `curl`:

Parsing a single citation:


curl -H 'Accept: text/xml' -d "citation=Udvarhelyi, I.S., Gatsonis,
C.A., Epstein, A.M., Pashos, C.L., Newhouse, J.P. and McNeil, B.J.
Acute Myocardial Infarction in the Medicare population: process of
care and clinical outcomes. Journal of the American Medical
Association, 1992; 18:2530-2536.  "
http://0.0.0.0:3000/citations/create

Parsing multiple citations:


curl -H 'Accept: text/xml' -d "citation[]=Fielderman, A., Silvester,
G., Gatsonis, C.A., Hoenig, J., Flynn, S. Prognostic significance of
flow cytometric DNA analysis and proliferative index in stage I
non-small cell lung cancer. American Review of Respiratory Disease,
1992; 146:707-710.&citation[]=Udvarhelyi, I.S., Gatsonis, C.A.,
Epstein, A.M., Pashos, C.L., Newhouse, J.P. and McNeil, B.J. Acute
Myocardial Infarction in the Medicare population: process of care and
clinical outcomes. Journal of the American Medical Association, 1992;
18:2530-2536.  " http://0.0.0.0:3000/citations/create

Example Return:

<citations>
  <citation valid=true>
  <authors>
    <author>I S Udvarhelyi</author>
    <author>C A Gatsonis</author>
    <author>A M Epstein</author>
    <author>C L Pashos</author>
    <author>J P Newhouse</author>
    <author>B J McNeil</author>
  </authors>
  <title>Acute Myocardial Infarction in the Medicare population: process of care and clinical outcomes</title>
  <journal>Journal of the American Medical Association</ journal>
  <pages>18--2530</pages>
  <year>1992</year>
  <raw_string>Udvarhelyi, I.S., Gatsonis, C.A., Epstein, A.M., Pashos, C.L., Newhouse, J.P. and McNeil, B.J. Acute Myocardial Infarction in the Medicare population: process of care and clinical outcomes. Journal of the American Medical Association, 1992; 18:2530-2536.</raw_string>
  <ctx:context-objects xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance' xsi:schemaLocation='info:ofi/fmt:xml:xsd:ctx http://www.openurl.info/registry/docs/info:ofi/fmt:xml:xsd:ctx' xmlns:ctx='info:ofi/fmt:xml:xsd:ctx'>
    <ctx:context-object timestamp='2008-07-11T00:57:33-04:00'
    encoding='info:ofi/enc:UTF-8' version='Z39.88-2004' identifier=''>
      <ctx:referent>
        <ctx:metadata-by-val>
          <ctx:format>info:ofi/fmt:xml:xsd:journal</ctx:format>
          <ctx:metadata>
            <journal xmlns:rft='info:ofi/fmt:xml:xsd:journal' xsi:schemaLocation='info:ofi/fmt:xml:xsd:journal http://www.openurl.info/registry/docs/info:ofi/fmt:xml:xsd:journal'>
              <rft:atitle>Acute Myocardial Infarction in the Medicare population: process of care and clinical outcomes</rft:atitle>
              <rft:spage>18</rft:spage>
              <rft:date>1992</rft:date>
              <rft:stitle>Journal of the American Medical Association</rft:stitle>
              <rft:genre>article</rft:genre>
              <rft:epage>2530</rft:epage>
              <rft:au>I S Udvarhelyi</rft:au>
              <rft:au>C A Gatsonis</rft:au>
              <rft:au>A M Epstein</rft:au>
              <rft:au>C L Pashos</rft:au>
              <rft:au>J P Newhouse</rft:au>
              <rft:au>B J McNeil</rft:au>
            </journal>
          </ctx:metadata>
        </ctx:metadata-by-val>
      </ctx:referent>
    </ctx:context-object>
  </ctx:context-objects>
  </citation>
</citations>