Re: Pybliographer with NASA-ADS

On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 00:46 -0500, Sebastien Maret wrote:
> I have a suggestion to improve pybliographer. It would be great if one
> could make requests on NASA-ADS in a similar way than on PubMed. NASA-ADS
> is the main bibliographic database for Astrophysics:
> 
> http://adswww.harvard.edu/index.html
> 
> I don't know how much work it would be to implement this. A perl
> interface to the database exist and could be a starting good point:
> 
> http://search.cpan.org/~aallan/Astro-ADS-1.20.7
> 
> This tool allows to make requests to the database and returns the
> results as a xml file, so I don't think that it would be too 
> complicated to write a python wrapper on top of it.
> 
> Sébastien
> 
I just had a look at it. I think I'll have a look at it once I get baz
working properly and have some more time at hand, it looks very similar
to the inspec query I wrote. 
Cheers
Jochen



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