[openbiblio-dev] References in Wikipedia and BibJSON

[Chris Maloney]

Hi,
I just started lurking here recently, and I'm not sure exactly what you are
trying to do, but have you checked to see if this information isn't already
extracted and available through DBPedia ( http://dbpedia.org/About )?
It seems you're trying to extract and resolve bibliographic information
from Wikipedia articles, right?  I'm not an expert on DBPedia (I've only
just read a little bit) but this seems to be exactly in line with DBPedia's
core mission, and I'd be very surprised if they don't have this data
available already.  At the very least, take a look at their extraction
framework:  http://wiki.dbpedia.org/Documentation , which could perhaps
provide the tool to mine for this data yourselves.


On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 4:06 AM, Etienne Posthumus <
etienne.posthumus at okfn.org> wrote:

> On 14 February 2012 17:35, Jim Pitman <pitman at stat.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> > There is an API call which I have used before. The return is not very
> structured, but its fairly
> > clean and typically better than trying to scrape the raw html, which
> they discourage anyway. It should be easy
> > to rip out the bibitems from the API call.  I'll look in my files for
> how the API call works and respond
> > again on this.
>
> Just adding Jim's answer (from a separate mail) to this thread. To see
> raw Wikipedia output, do:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?action=raw&title=Vega_(rocket)
>
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