Software for improved scientific references using the Web-Citation Protocol

描述(由申请人提供)：该项目将为基于网络的“纲要”开发软件，其定义为“一种简明而全面的知识体系组织及其评估”。这样的提纲将成为网上知识概述的基础。该软件将使用一种新的标准--网络引用协议。该议定书提供了一种在科学/医学文献中创建参考文献的新方法。该项目将指导议定书的开发，然后编写执行议定书所需的软件。网络引文协议的一个重要特征是能够创建引文(在网络上称为“链接”)，并由引文作者添加额外的信息。附加信息将帮助读者决定遵循哪些引用，并将以电子表格格式呈现，使读者能够对读者当时感兴趣的变量进行排序。该软件将允许绘制引用文章和引用文章的地图。该项目采用了一种方法，通过这种方法，纲要中的信息和收集的关于引文的信息对于不同的科学/医学领域可以是不同的，并随着这些领域的变化而变化。在这种情况下，基于Web的Compendia和网络引用协议都是可适应的，而不是固定的。这个项目直接关系到NLM和NIH研究所的使命，即让公众、医疗专业人员和科学家随时获得医学和科学知识。这项任务将通过改进科学和医学文章引用来加强，以加强从基于网络的储存库中恢复信息。 公共卫生相关性：该项目与公共卫生直接相关，因为它将提供一种通过网络向专家和公众传播科学知识的简便方法，而这是目前尚不具备的手段。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This project will develop software for Web-based "Compendia", which is defined as "a concise, yet comprehensive, organization of a body of knowledge, together with its evaluation." Such Compendia will for a basis for Outlined-Knowledge on the Web. The software will use a new standard, the Web-Citation-Protocol. The Protocol offers a new method of creating references in the scientific/medical literature. The project will direct the development of the Protocol, and then program the software necessary to implement it. An important feature of the Web-Citation-Protocol is the ability to create Citations (called on the Web as "Links") with additional information added by Citing Authors. The additional information will aid the Reader in deciding which Citations to follow, and will be presented in a spreadsheet format that will allow the Reader to sort on variables-of-interest to the Reader at that time. The software will allow mapping of both Cited Articles and Citing Articles. The project incorporates means by which the information in Compendia and that collected about the citations can be different for different scientific/medical fields, and change when such fields change. Both Web-based Compendia and the WebCitation-Protocol are in this way adaptable, rather than fixed. This project is directly related to the mission of NLM and NIH Institutes to make medical and scientific knowledge readily accessible to the public, to the medical profession, and to scientists. This mission will be enhanced by improving scientific and medical article citations to enhance recovery of information from web-based repositories. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This project is directly related to Public Health because it will provide an easy method to disseminate scientific knowledge over the Web, to both specialists and the public, by means not presently available.