Create a conversion service for CFF files about citation-file-format HOT 6 OPEN

I've updated cffconvert to include a Google Cloud interface (https://github.com/citation-file-format/cff-converter-python/blob/b7e43b8038b7afb36ea599ca0b519fd808948998/cffconvert/gcloud.py). It basically makes available the complete cffconvert cli, except it works by entering data via url arguments, e.g.:

• https://us-central1-cffconvert.cloudfunctions.net/cffconvert
• https://us-central1-cffconvert.cloudfunctions.net/cffconvert?verbose
• https://us-central1-cffconvert.cloudfunctions.net/cffconvert?url=https://github.com/xenon-middleware/xenon&outputformat=cff
  https://us-central1-cffconvert.cloudfunctions.net/cffconvert?url=https://github.com/xenon-middleware/xenon&outputformat=bibtex

I'll leave the Google Cloud function running for the immediate future

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I can look into support for both formats in Citation.js. However, until I start using JSON-LD instead of regular objects (planned for v0.5), conversion from CFF to CodeMeta JSON would be pretty lossy, I think. [EDIT: But CSL-JSON, BibTeX, and RIS would work, insofar as those formats can represent CFF data.]

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@larsgw Thanks! That would be awesome!

Let me know if you need any help, and please file an issue should you come across any issues/inconsistencies with CFF, or any ideas you might have to enhance the docs.

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I published the first version of a plugin to add support for CFF to Citation.js: @citation-js/plugin-software-formats. Examples:

const Cite = require('[email protected]')

// Install plugin
require('@citation-js/plugin-software-formats')

const cff = new Cite(`cff-version: 1.0.3
message: If you use this software, please cite it as below.
authors:
  - family-names: Druskat
    given-names: Stephan
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4925-7248
title: My Research Tool
version: 1.0.4
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.1234
date-released: 2017-12-18`)

cff.data // (CSL-JSON)
/*
[ { author: [ { family: 'Druskat', given: 'Stephan' } ],
    issued: { 'date-parts': [ [ 2017, 12, 18 ] ] },
    DOI: '10.5281/zenodo.1234',
    title: 'My Research Tool',
    version: '1.0.4',
    id: 'temp_id_37569928872458447' } ]
*/

cff.format('bibext')
/*
@misc{Druskat2017My,
  doi={10.5281/zenodo.1234},
  title={{My Research Tool}},
  author={Druskat, Stephan},
  date={2017-12-18},
  year=2017,
  month=12,
  day=18,
}
*/

cff.format('ris')
/*
AU  - Druskat, Stephan
DA  - 2017/12/18
PY  - 2017
DO  - 10.5281/zenodo.1234
TI  - My Research Tool
ER  - 
*/

cff.format('bibliography', {template: 'apa'})
// Druskat, S. (2017, December 18). My Research Tool (Version 1.0.4). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1234

There are still some problems regarding reference types, which invalidates the RIS output, but I'm working on that.

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Cool, great news! Thanks for your effort!

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FWIW, there is also a conversion tool cffconvert available from PyPI, part of which has been made available as a Google Cloud Function https://us-central1-citation-cff.cloudfunctions.net/convert
It works by passing it parameters, i.e. a github repo as url and the format you want to convert to, which should be one of [zenodo|ris|bibtex|endnote|codemeta]. For example, https://us-central1-citation-cff.cloudfunctions.net/convert?url=https://github.com/NLeSC/Xenon&format=zenodo

Note that cffconvert currently implements just the basics of the CFF spec, e.g it ignores the references part of CFF files.

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