The Lagotto software includes a number of sources. Most sources require a user account with the service (see table below).

Viewed

Discussed

Saved

Cited

Recommended

PLOS-specific Sources

Retired Sources

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Name Authentication IP Restriction Format Protocol Rate-limiting
CiteULike no no XML REST 2,000/hour
CrossRef username
password
no XML REST unknown
DataCite no no JSON or XML REST unknown
Facebook OAuth 2.0 no JSON REST varies
Mendeley OAuth 2.0 no JSON REST 150/hour
Nature Blogs no no JSON REST 2/sec
5,000/day
PubMed Central Citations no no XML REST unknown
PubMed Central Usage Stats yes no XML HTTP unknown
Reddit no no JSON REST 1,800/hr
Research Blogging username
password
no XML REST unknown
ScienceSeeker no no XML REST unknown
Scopus api_key
insttoken
optional XML or JSON REST unknown
Wikipedia no no JSON REST unknown

Event Information

Most sources return information about each individual event (citation, bookmark, etc.), and this information is summarized below. The exception are sources that don't return information about individual events because of privacy (all usage data, Facebook, Mendeley readers) or for licensing reasons (Scopus, Web of Science, F1000).

Name ID URL Datetime Contributor Title Other
CiteULike   url post_time username   tag
CrossRef doi doi   contributor(s) title ISSN
journal title
journal abbreviation
volume
issue
first page
year
publication type
citation count
Mendeley Groups     date_added profile_id   group_id
Nature Blogs id url published_at   title blog title
blog url
PubMed Central Citations pmcid pmcid        
Research Blogging   post_URL published_date blogger_name post_title blog_name
received_date
ScienceSeeker id href updated author title summary
category
recommendations
Twitter id url created_at username text user_profile_image
Wikipedia   url datetime   title language
namespace

Creating a new source

Basically, each of the APIs that the ALM application is calling will be defined as a source. The ALM application provides a number of services to each source to help it get what it needs. Note the samples provided at http://github.com/lagotto/lagotto/tree/master/app/models/sources.