ESciDoc Services CitationStyleManager

	eSciDoc SOA
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Work in progress

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 definition for styles such as APA, MLA, Chicago, MPG Yearbook citation style and others and generates a file with specific output format such as RTF, ODT, PDF or HTML. Currently implemented style definitions: APA, AJP

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, ODT, SNIPPET*.
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.
isCitationStyle	implemented	String citationStyle	boolean	The method returns true if citationStyle is in the list of available citation styles, false otherwise
getStyles	implemented	none	String[]	The method returns the list of available citation styles
getOutputFormats	implemented	String citationStyle	String[]	The method returns the list of available output formats for citationStyle
getMimeType	implemented	String citationStyle String outputFormat	String	The method returns the mime-type for citationStyle and outputFormat

SNIPPET - this is an XML format of the data, defined by the eSciDoc Item.xsd schema. It is enriched with the HTML formatted output of the selected citation style e.g. APA as
```
<dcterms:bibliographicCitation/>
```
in the
```
<content-model-specific/>
```
part of the item XML representation.

Example:

<dcterms:bibliographicCitation xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/">
  <![CDATA[
    <span class="Default">Sengbusch, R. v.
      <span class="DisplayDateStatus"> (1963).</span> 
    </span>
    <span class="Italic">FISCHE "OHNE GRÄTEN".</span>
    <span class="Default"><br/></span>
  ]]>
</dcterms:bibliographicCitation>

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Service interfaces[edit]

export manager

Download[edit]

SVN link

Future Development[edit]

new citation styles (AJP, etc.)
creation of the more sophisticated semantic JUnit tests
command-line based workflow for creation and testing of the new citation styles
Citation Manager Library WEB Interface, further development