FAQ

Please leave your questions and answers here.... We can only answer questions about software and the scientific literature on viruses, epidemics, etc. If you want general knowledge go to Wikipedia (I do!).

what's the software?

• getpapers queries scientific repositories
• quickscrape scrapes publisher and other sites
• ami is a novel toolkit for collecting, transforming, indexing, sectioning, searching, and re-using scientific documents.

where can I get the software?

• https://github.com/contentmine/getpapers
• https://github.com/contentmine/quickscrape
• https://github.com/petermr/ami3

how can we run it?

You need your own machine with install permissions, and understand commandlines. getpapers and quickscrape need Node.js and have installation instructions. ami3 is a Java toolkit. At present you download a JAR file (https://github.com/petermr/tigr2ess gives instructions on installation and running. ) We will have later JAR files.

what help do you want?

• scraping, web stuff (Javascript, Node, REST)

• Academic and scholarly publishing, publisher sites, repositories.

• document transformation. HTML, XML/XSLT, JATS, PDF, Pandoc, etc.

• text searching.

• documentation and tutorials.

• liaison.

• Spanish (we are starting to index Redalyc, LatinAmerica)

• Wikimedia, SPARQL

• workflows, packaging and distribution

• community engagement and management.

• and lots more...