Linking Helioviewer to the ADS
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| Helioviewer.org |
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Bug Description
The ADS is an important resource for finding science papers. The ADS full text search allows users to search the full text of an article using search phrases and logic. The phrase below allows users to search for papers that mention the date 14th July 1998, are solar-related, and mention "EIT"
("July 14, 1998" OR "1998/07/14" OR "14 July 1998" OR "14th July 1998" OR "July 14th, 1998" OR "1998-7-14") AND "solar" AND "EIT"
which leads to
where we have added in the restriction to look only at the astronomical journals (which seems like a reasonable restriction).
There are a few aspects of this request to think about:
(1) number and type of date synonyms,
(2) when multiple instruments are present, or multiple wavelengths, should we be very specific in the search? For example, let's say the user is looking at EIT 171 and LASCO C2 data - what should the ADS search term be? Should it be "EIT" OR "LASCO", or "EIT" AND "LASCO", or "EIT 171" AND "LASCO C2", or "EIT 171" OR "LASCO C2"? How restrictive should we be? This might be an impossible problem to solve as to some extent it involves divining the user's intention.
(3) When and where should this feature be available? For example, we could have an ADS button right in the main viewer window which implements the above search. Also, for features and events that have a commonly understood piece of identifying information, we could include that specific identifying information in the query to the ADS. For example,
("July 14, 1998" OR "1998/07/14" OR "14 July 1998" OR "14th July 1998" OR "July 14th, 1998" OR "1998-7-14") AND "solar" AND "8270"
where "8270" is the NOAA active region number, looks for solar papers with the number "8270", which is the NOAA active region number.
