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• External queries

External queries

Status: implemented

Provide a common platform for interrogating external databases. I certainly would go for a Twisted-based solution (so that it is asynchronous, robust and integrates both in a GUI and a command line application). For webpage scraping, BeautifulSoup is nice.

Open issues:

• [Who?] limit the abstracts in the result list (evt with a button to extend it)

• [Who?] support drag/drop to add results to the db, or provide a clue that it's on activating the entry

• [Who?] Add the name of the source in the Result popup (WOK results for ....)

• [Who?] find some common interrogation system, eventually coupled with an "Advanced search" box. See Unified Queries for more information

• [Who?] Citeseer: failure when searching "foobar".

  • Seems to be related to the lack of a 'RLS' comment in the result page when the site is down

• [Who?] WOK: search papers that cite a given paper

• [Who?] PubMed: keep the eutils URL

• [Who?] keep history of the search box's content

• [Who?] Extract DOI from Pubmed (in medline-aid??)

There is already a list of External Databases.