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Core Platform Team/Initiative/References API/Initiative Vision

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Vision:
  • Reliability and verifiability in our content is improved by giving more focus to references.
  • Software developers provide tools to explore references in new and unexpected ways.
Target Group(s):
  • iOS (building reference features for next release)
  • external developers
  • librarians
  • readers
  • archivists
Needs:
  • Deeper information on references
  • Reverse lookup on references
  • Context on authors
  • Context on publishers
  • Context on publications
Product:
  • REST API for the Cite extension (/cite/v1/...)
  • Endpoint to retrieve all references on a page
  • Endpoint for deeper context information on a reference
  • Endpoint to determine which pages use a reference, author, or publisher
Aligned Goals:
  • Increase equity and power of curation tools.
  • Increase feature parity among clients by structuring content and providing a full featured API.