Hi Pantelis, All,

BibText service would be very useful.  In addition to representation of
BibTex entries, would it make sense to agree on how these should be
linked to OpenTox objects (e.g. datasets or models) ?

Best regards,
Nina
chung wrote:
> Dear all,
>  There is a formal OWL definition of bibliographic entries following the
> BibTeX specification. This is available at
> http://zeitkunst.org/bibtex/0.1/ . I think we could use this in OpenTox
> if we need to assign such a reference to a model, dataset with
> predictions or other resource. Of course we need a BibTex service
> including an (on-line) database for storing bibtex references. On the
> other hand we could adopt some internal structure for use in OpenTox but
> I think it's better to follow some well accepted standards to enhance
> interoperability with other services and applications. 
>
> So, if there is no objection on that I could proceed with the
> implementation of a web service with the following functionalities:
>
> GET /bibtex: Get all bibTex references in RDF or other available MIME as
> specified by the Accept header (default: application/rdf+xml).
>
> GET /bibtex/{id}: Get the representation of a certain bibtex reference
> in some available format.
>
> POST /bibtex: post an RDF representation to the bibtex service. Your
> bibtex will be parsed and stored in the database. The URI of the
> generated bibtex resource is returned to the client in text/uri-list (or
> other) format. 
>
> PUT /bibtex/{id}: Update a bibtex reference resource with some given
> one.
>
> DELETE /bibtex/{id} and DELETE /bibtex/: Delete some or all bibtex
> resource(s) (requires administrative skills).
>
> Best regards,
> Pantelis
>
>
>
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