Abstract
We introduce CiteSeer-API, a public API to CiteSeer-like services. CiteSeer-API is SOAP/WSDL based and allows for easy programmatical access to all the specific functionalities offered by CiteSeer services, including full text search of documents and citations and citation-based document discovery. In order to enable operability and interlinking with arbitrary software agents and digital library systems, CiteSeer-API uses digital content signatures to create system-independent handles for the Document, Citation and Group resources of CiteSeer servers. We discuss specific functionalities of CiteSeer-API that take advantage of these handlers in order to enable seamless location of CiteSeer resources. Finally we argue that the digital signature scheme used by CiteSeer-API is well suited for the creation of machine-usable semantic descriptions of digital library services which is the key toward seamless discovery and integration of services such as CiteSeer-API. CiteSeer-API is currently showcased on CiteSeer.IST, the CiteSeer server of the School of Information Science and Technology at the Pennsylvania State University.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | CIKM 2004: Proceedings of the Thirteenth ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management |
| Editors | D.A. Evans, L. Gravano, O. Herzog, C. Zhai, M. Ronthaler |
| Pages | 553-561 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| State | Published - 2004 |
| Event | CIKM 2004: Proceedings of the Thirteenth ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management - Washington, DC, United States Duration: Nov 8 2004 → Nov 13 2004 |
Other
| Other | CIKM 2004: Proceedings of the Thirteenth ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management |
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| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | Washington, DC |
| Period | 11/8/04 → 11/13/04 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General Business, Management and Accounting