Background.Given the vast number of standards and formats for bibliographical data, any program working with bibliographies and citations has to be able to interpret such data. This paper describes the development of Citation.js (https://citation.js.org/), a tool to parse and format according to those standards. The program follows modern guidelines for software in general and JavaScript in specific, such as version control, source code analysis, integration testing and semantic versioning. Results. The result is an extensible tool that has already seen adaption in a variety of sources and use cases: as part of a server-side page generator of a publishing platform, as part of a local extensible document generator, and as part of an in-browser converter of extracted references. Use cases range from transforming a list of DOIs or Wikidata identifiers into a BibTeX file on the command line, to displaying RIS references on a webpage with added Altmetric badges to generating ''How to cite this'' sections on a blog. The accuracy of conversions is currently 27% for properties and 60% for types on average and a typical initialization takes 120 ms in browsers and 1 s with Node.js on the command line. Conclusions.Citation.js is a library supporting various formats of bibliographic information in a broad selection of use cases and environments. Given the support for plugins, more formats can be added with relative ease.

My new homepage is finally finished (for now). I say finally, because it has taken a while before it actually felt done. You know how the first 90% of the work takes 90% of the time, but the last 10% of the work takes another 90% of the time? I just had to finish writing a single, small piece of text and it would be complete, but it took about 2 weeks. Anyway, that's all done now, and the result can be seen at larsgw.github.io. Homepage The design is based on the principles of Material...

It’s been in beta since January 30, but here it is: Citation.js version 0.3. Below I explain the changes since the last blog post, and under that is a more complete change log. Also some upcoming changes. Recent changes Custom citation formatting Async Parsers Older changes Features Bugs Upcoming changes Recent changes Custom citation formatting One of the remaining milestones for v0.3.0 was a better API for custom citation formatting, as outlined in the previous post. The...

So, I am a ContentMine fellow now. Actually, for a few weeks already. That's why you see the weekly reports. Those are reports about the project I am doing for my fellowship. I don not have much else to say about it. For more information, please take a look at the links below. <b>Some links:</b> Fellowship announcement Blogpost introducing me (reblog on this blog) My project proposal Weekly reports (Weekly reports on GitHub) Other fellows: Introductory posts, fellows page

Citation.js: RIS Rework Pt. 1 So a while ago I was looking around for the RIS specification again. I had not found it earlier, only a reference implementation from Zotero, a surprisingly complete list...