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Revision as of 12:13, 6 November 2007

ID (Label)[edit]

CSM

Complete Name[edit]

Citation Style Manager Service

Status[edit]

Implemented

Description[edit]

This service formats the descriptive metadata of a content item (or a list of content items) in accordance with specific citation style such as APA, MLA, Chicago, MPG Yearbook citation style and others and generates a file with specific output format such as RTF, PDF or HTML.

Operations[edit]

Operation Status Input Output Description
explainStyles implemented none List of styles and supported output formats in accordance with the explain_styles.xsd This operation retrieves a list of supported citation styles and for each of them supported output format such as RTF, PDF, HTML.
getOutput implemented String citationStyle
String outputFormat
String itemList
byte [] The service takes as an input citationStyle identifier, an output format identifier and a list of content items and returns a byte array with metadata formatted in accordance with selected citation style and output format.

Note: in future it is planned to return a URL from where the temporary file can be downloaded.
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