Citation.js: RIS Rework Pt. 1 So a while ago I was looking around for the RIS specification again. I had not found it earlier, only a reference implementation from Zotero, a surprisingly complete list of tags and types on Wikipedia and some examples from various websites and programs exporting RIS files. They did not seem to go together well, however.

Citation.js: Usability Update Citation.js just had a bunch of tooling updated, which should make a lot of use cases easier. Let’s go through them: Replacer (GitHub, Demo) Replacer is an HTML API for Citation.js that I recently updated for the new version so that it works with components.

Citation.js: Wikidata Update The new update, v0.4.4, contains a few Wikidata improvements (commit): 22 new mappings 2 fixed mappings (ISSN did not work and publisher-place was mapped to the wrong thing) 2 improved mappings (container-title for chapters and more URL mappings) 1 removed mapping (genre was inconsistent with the intended use, although it followed the specification) Because most of these mappings require additional resources

Citation.js Version 0.4: The Catch-up After about two years, finally v0.4.0 is ready for a release. Whether it is a real milestone given that there have been prereleases for about two years, while 0.3.x only lasted three weeks, is for you to decide but I am glad that everything I planned for this version is implemented now. Changes So, let’s go through the major changes. Modules Most importantly, the code is fully modulated now.

Citation.js: Wikidata Subclasses I am in the process of creating a better way to map CSL types to Wikidata types together with Jakob Voß, and while listing all subtypes of web page, I came across a number of these cases (link): #defaultView:Graph SELECT ?a ?aLabel ?b ?bLabel WHERE { wd:Q58803899 wdt:P279* ?a . ?a wdt:P279 ?b . FILTER EXISTS { ?b wdt:P279* wd:Q386724 . } SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam

Citation.js: Showing Blogger Posts on a Different Site I made a Material-themed page showing Citation.js blog posts from Blogger. It supports pagination, tags, search and linking individual posts. Since it’s a single, static page I can’t support meta and link tags for metadata, that would require JavaScript which indexers don’t run.

Modern Altmetric badges I recently found myself working with Altmetric badges again, and I realized how cumbersome it can be to work with scripts. The Altmetric badges can only be added by using their JavaScript library, while it would be a lot more user friendly to have a simple URL that embeds the badge, preferably even an image.

Citation.js: Use Case for a Wikidata GraphQL API Citation.js has supported Wikidata input for a long time. However, I’ve always had some trouble with the API.

Journal Metadata: Authors & Institutions I finished the General Plugin system for Citation.js a few days ago (more on that later), so I could finally publish a new beta release. Now, after that half-finished piece of code had been blocking other work for a long while, I can at last start… fixing bugs, and closing other items in the backlog.

Debugging: Deja Vu I’m going to share some stories on debugging with you, because I’m proud of them. After writing up the first story, I’m no longer particularly proud, but I still want to share the story. Here’s the first: a bug that seemed quite familiar.

I promised more photos in the previous post, so here they are. Penicillium: Detail With conidiophores Detail of conidiophores More fungi: Cat brains: This post is part of a series.