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web的“纲要”开发软件，该纲要被定义为“一个简明而全面的知识体系组织及其评价”。这样的纲要将成为网络上概要知识的基础。该软件将使用一个新的标准——网络引用协议。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。该项目将指导该协议的开发，然后编写实现该协议所需的软件。Web-引文协议的一个重要特性是能够创建由引文作者添加的附加信息的引文（在Web上称为“链接”）。附加信息将帮助读者决定遵循哪些引文，并将以电子表格的形式呈现，以便读者对当时感兴趣的变量进行排序。该软件将允许对引用文章和引用文章进行映射。该项目采用了一些方法，通过这些方法，在不同的科学/医学领域，《简编》中的信息和收集到的关于引文的信息可能不同，并随着这些领域的变化而变化。基于web的Compendia和WebCitation-Protocol在这种方式上都是可适应的，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、医学界和科学家能够轻松获取医学和科学知识。将改进科学和医学文章的引用，以加强从基于网络的存储库中恢复信息，从而加强这一任务。

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.