Proxying Pingbacks and Trackbacks
Introduction Trackbacks and Pingbacks are both implementations of the linkback methodology for providing links between digital resources and things which hyperlink to those digital resources. This...
View ArticleUse of DOIs on Knowledgeblogs
The Knowledgeblog project registers Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) for posts using the Datacite service, in which the British Library is a partner. Datacite has an Application Programming Interface...
View ArticleCitations and Download with Kblog-metadata
The Kblog-metadata plugin [1] provides general facilities for recording, displaying and releasing bibliographic metadata about an article. While it is possible to use kblog-metadata purely as a tool...
View ArticleCiting URLs with Kcite
The Kcite plugin [1] generates bibliographies in kblog articles from a variety of different article identifiers, including arXiv, PubMed and DOIs. Kcite now also supports simple URLs [2]. In this...
View ArticleAdding Multiple Authors to a Post
A common requirement from academics is be able to have multiple authors for a given article. Kblog-metadata provides this ability within the WordPress environment. It differs from related plugins such...
View ArticleWhy multiple authors?
In this article, we consider the reason why support for multiple authors is necessary for academic writing, and the implications this has for how we provide this support [1]. In general, in academic...
View ArticleChanging the Container Title
Kblog-metadata stores and displays metadata about posts either visually [1], or for computational agents such as Greycite [2] to use. In this article, we describe the container title, how to use it,...
View ArticleWhat is Greycite?
Greycite is a tool which extracts bibliographic metadata from a web page. It stores this metadata, and then makes it available for either computational use by tools such as Kcite [1], or for viewing...
View ArticleHow to Reference a Book by URL
Kcite allows enables referencing of scientific articles by their primary identifier [1]. As we currently support DOIs, arXiv, and PubMed identifiers this works well for most scientific articles, as...
View ArticleInline Citations with Kcite
Since version 1.6.3, Kcite [1] has supported inline citations. This enables a researcher to cite any article without the presence of a URL, arXiv ID or other identifier. This article describes how to...
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