Allow users to automatically flesh out bibliographic data by integrating with external web services.

[e-e-e]

This is a question about how to make it easy for users to add detailed information to the database without having to manually enter it.

Current services which we could use are:

• Open Library
  Provides RDF representations of books - using FRBR, Dublin Core, FOAF and BIBO vocabularies to describe relationships.

• CrossRef
  Provides content negotiation for data describing DOI's - using Turtle or RDF gives back data in the form of triples - unsure if vocabulary changes based on original data source or if its standardised.
  Alternatively we could use there Restful api - https://github.com/CrossRef/rest-api-doc

• WorldCat
  Provides content negotiation for book bibliographic information - using Schema and their own custom Library extension to present bibliographic data.

• Open Citations
  This uses the Spar Ontologies to represent citational data related to DOI's.

• BaseData
  This is an old project for linking together different identifiers. Potentially we could use this to offer a simple way to link these different services. Eg. ISBN points to DOI and OpenLibraryId.

• Others - eg. Trove?

Given that all these services have different vocabularies we will need to develop our own translators for each of these services and decide on a particular vocabulary for storing reference data in the hyperreadings db.

[e-e-e]

After chatting with @sdockray - we have moved towards the idea of leveraging zotero translators for this rather than writing our own.
To begin with we experiment with running a zotero translation server but intend to move towards integrating directly into the app.