Greycite will now return citations in RIS format [1], though with the caveat that the Type record value is always set to be ELEC – it is difficult in general to infer any other type information from a resource.

I have also added support for the Wikipedia citation format[2]. This has the benefit that you can include information about archives in the data, however you appear only to be able to include a single archive should there more than one. The format insists that you include a date for the archive which makes referring to webcitation.org archives [3] difficult as there is no easy way that I have found to get at the archive date so webcitation.org links are currently not reported. Work in progress….

References

1. "RIS (file format) - Wikipedia", Wikipedia, 2016. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIS_(file_format)
2. "Wikipedia:Citation templates - Wikipedia", Wikipedia, 2016. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citation_template
3. "WebCite"http://webcitation.org/

Monitoring the URLs that people submit to Greycite helps me find new sources of metadata, and, of course, new quirks and ways that people ignore standards. So now Greycite supports title tags that are embedded in the body rather than the head (I’m looking at you phdcomics [1]), Parsely metadata [2] which is supported by some publications such as The Atlantic [3], and and the use of a “title” meta tag as used by the American University Law Review [4] to encode paper titles (they don’t have any other useful metadata though). Interestingly Squidoo [5] appears to have supported Parsely in the past but no longer does so for some reason.

References

1. "PHD Comic: What is Aging?"http://www.phdcomics.com/
2. "Parse.ly Crawler — parselyapi 0.1 documentation"http://www.parsely.com/api/crawler.html
3. "The Atlantic — News and analysis on politics, business, culture, technology, national, international, and life – TheAtlantic.com", The Atlantichttp://www.theatlantic.com/
4. "American University Law Review", American University Law Reviewhttp://www.aulawreview.org/
5. "Squidoo is now HubPages", Squidoohttp://www.squidoo.com/

A few more small updates to report:

• Greycite purls now redirect to the canonical URI, if we have one.
• If a greycited URI is redirected, this gets reported both on the web page and in the JSON (in a field called “redirects-to”) if the redirect is not to the canonical URI. Currently this is not reported in the bibtex or RDF.
• On the web page for a URI there is now a link taking you to a page that shows all the various metadata items Greycite has extracted from the target in a more readable firm than popovers.
• Some websites are now treated as containers in the absence of other container information: t the moment htese are Wikipedia [1], YouTube [2], figshare [3] and arxiv.org [4]. More will be added, I’m sure.

References

1. "Wikipedia", Wikipedia, 2016. http://wikipedia.org/
2. "YouTube", YouTubehttp://youtube.com/
3. " figshare - credit for all your research ", figsharehttp://figshare.com/
4. "arXiv.org e-Print archive", arXiv.orghttp://arxiv.org/

Most of the knowledge blog software is now transitioning through to Github from its old home on Google Code. The code has been split up into mutiple repositories. Although this makes them harder to browse, it does make them easier to work with. It should also make it easier for others to offer contributions, which are always welcome.