OpCit and the Cornell Digital Library Research Group

Achievements and Shared Activity

• Cornell's part: to build a Reference Linking API that can be used to develop further reference linking tools and applications.
• A cornerstone of the API's implementation is Dr. Les Carr's "deciter" software.
• Timeline: design done, end of 1999. Coding mostly done, end of 2000. Sample applications, quality improvement, 2001
• Current performance (in terms of accuracy of data extracted):
  • Reference analysis (using deciter + Cornell's enhancements): 86.7%
  • Item analysis (bib data, contexts, and references for a given paper): 82.42 %

Implementability

• Simple interface: Surrogate s = new Surrogate(some-url);
• Portable: written in Java, has run in Solaris, Win2K, and NT4
• Installation: API source code plus public domain jar files