Software for improved scientific references using the Web-Citation Protocol

描述（由申请人提供）：本项目将开发基于Web的“纲要”软件，纲要的定义是“一个简洁而全面的知识体系组织及其评估。“这样的纲要将为网络上的概述知识奠定基础。该软件将使用一个新的标准，即网络引文协议。该议定书提供了在科学/医学文献中创建参考文献的新方法。该项目将指导协议的开发，然后编写必要的软件来实现它。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要遵循哪些引文，并将以电子表格格式呈现，以便读者在那时对读者感兴趣的变量进行排序。该软件将允许映射引用文章和引用文章。该项目采用了一些方法，通过这些方法，汇编中的信息和收集的关于引文的信息可以因不同的科学/医学领域而异，并随着这些领域的变化而变化。基于Web的纲要和WebCitation-Protocol都是适应性的，而不是固定的。该项目与NLM和NIH研究所的使命直接相关，即使公众、医学专业人员和科学家容易获得医学和科学知识。这一使命将通过改进科学和医学文章的引用来加强，以加强从基于网络的知识库中恢复信息。 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单方法，目前还没有这种方法。

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.