Re: Pybliographer with NASA-ADS

Jochen <[email protected]> writes:

> 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.
>> 
>> 
> 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. 

Great ! Thanks.

Sébastien



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