RelatonW3c

RelatonW3c is a Ruby gem that implements the IsoBibliographicItem model.

You can use it to retrieve metadata of W3C Standards from https://w3.org, and access such metadata through the W3cBibliographicItem object.

Installation

Add this line to your application’s Gemfile:

gem 'relaton-w3c'

And then execute:

$ bundle install

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install relaton-w3c

Usage

Search for a standard using keywords

require 'relaton_w3c'
=> true

hits = RelatonW3c::W3cBibliography.search("W3C JSON-LD 1.1")
=> <RelatonW3c::HitCollection:0x007f93b5e4ff48 @ref=W3C JSON-LD 1.1 @fetched=false>

item = hits[0].fetch
=> #<RelatonW3c::W3cBibliographicItem:0x007f93a58a0670
...

XML serialization

item.to_xml
=> "<bibitem id="CR-json-ld11-20200316" type="standard">
      <fetched>2020-04-07</fetched>
      <title type="main" format="text/plain" language="en" script="Latn">JSON-LD 1.1</title>
      <title format="text/plain" language="en" script="Latn">A JSON-based Serialization for Linked Data</title>
      <uri type="src">https://www.w3.org/TR/2020/CR-json-ld11-20200316/</uri>
      <date type="published">
          <on>2020</on>
      </date>
      ...
    </bibitem>"

With argument bibdata: true it ouputs XML wrapped by bibdata element and adds flavour ext element.

item.to_xml bibdata: true
=> "<bibdata type="standard">
      <fetched>2020-04-07</fetched>
      <title type="main" format="text/plain" language="en" script="Latn">JSON-LD 1.1</title>
      <title format="text/plain" language="en" script="Latn">A JSON-based Serialization for Linked Data</title>
      <uri type="src">https://www.w3.org/TR/2020/CR-json-ld11-20200316/</uri>
      <date type="published">
          <on>2020</on>
      </date>
      ...
      <ext>
        <doctype>candidateRecommendation</doctype>
      </ext>
    </bibdata>"

Get document by title

RelatonW3c::W3cBibliography.get "W3C JSON-LD 1.1"
[relaton-w3c] ("W3C JSON-LD 1.1") fetching...
[relaton-w3c] ("W3C JSON-LD 1.1") found JSON-LD 1.1
=> #<RelatonW3c::W3cBibliographicItem:0x007f93b655bb48
...

Get document by title and type

RelatonW3c::W3cBibliography.get "W3C Candidate Recommendation JSON-LD 1.1"
[relaton-w3c] ("W3C Candidate Recommendation JSON-LD 1.1") fetching...
[relaton-w3c] ("W3C Candidate Recommendation JSON-LD 1.1") found JSON-LD 1.1
=> #<RelatonW3c::W3cBibliographicItem:0x007f9357199b90
...

Get document by title and short type

RelatonW3c::W3cBibliography.get "W3C CR JSON-LD 1.1"
[relaton-w3c] ("W3C CR JSON-LD 1.1") fetching...
[relaton-w3c] ("W3C CR JSON-LD 1.1") found JSON-LD 1.1
=> #<RelatonW3c::W3cBibliographicItem:0x007f93b6d37dd0
...

Get document by title, type, and date

RelatonW3c::W3cBibliography.get "W3C WD JSON-LD 1.1 2019-10-18"
[relaton-w3c] ("W3C WD JSON-LD 1.1 2019-10-18") fetching...
[relaton-w3c] ("W3C WD JSON-LD 1.1 2019-10-18") found JSON-LD 1.1
=> #<RelatonW3c::W3cBibliographicItem:0x007f9345a198b8
...

Create bibliographic item from XML

RelatonW3c::XMLParser.from_xml File.read('spec/fixtures/cr_json_ld11.xml')
=> #<RelatonW3c::W3cBibliographicItem:0x007f9381efce98
...

Create bibliographic item from YAML

hash = YAML.load_file 'spec/fixtures/cr_json_ld11.yml'
=> {"title"=>
  [{"type"=>"main", "content"=>"JSON-LD 1.1", "language"=>"en", "script"=>"Latn", "format"=>"text/plain"},
...

bib_hash = RelatonW3c::HashConverter.hash_to_bib hash
=> {:title=>
  [{:type=>"main", :content=>"JSON-LD 1.1", :language=>"en", :script=>"Latn", :format=>"text/plain"},
...

RelatonW3c::W3cBibliographicItem.new bib_hash
=> #<RelatonW3c::W3cBibliographicItem:0x007f9381ec6a00
...

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to [rubygems.org](https://rubygems.org).

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/relaton/relaton_w3c.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the [MIT License](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT).