pipol v4.0.20 - unofficial, searchable, and shareable people mirror

The pipol service aims to make the PEOPLE publication records visible, accessible, searchable, and shareable.

✔ pipol is unofficial: the publication records are collected from the CNR PEOPLE platform, whose last activity was on 31/01/2024 at 16:36.

Indeed, pipol is the result of the integration of the official CNR Open Archive Initiative (CNR-OAI) and the official CNR Explore Research Archive (CNR-ExploRA), whose data are subsequently transferred to our local database. The key feature is the Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (PMH) implemented by CNR-OAI, which is useful to efficiently retrieve the latest (or updated) records after a heavy (una tantum) harvesting step.

✔ pipol is searchable: the most effective pipol feature is the fulltext search, which acts on titles, keywords, and abstracts to find the publications of your interest. You may also specify one or more CNR institutes and one or more authors, the latter choice being very handy to create a publication list of a lab where many authors are involved. You will find below a complete list of the available parameters for customizing your query.

At the date of 21/12/2024, pipol is a 0.6GB platform with 368K records from 132 CNR institutes. By taking into account titles, keywords, and abstracts, pipol is also a textual resource with 45M tokens.

Note that author and editor names are parsed by pipol to guarantee homogeneity during search and visualisation. Various name formats are handled, however if some names still do not appear correctly in pipol, please consider editing the corresponding PEOPLE records according to the non-ambiguous format "Last Name, First Name; Last Name, First Name; ...". The affiliation notes, if any, are expected to be present at the end of each name, either as digits or in brackets (e.g. "Last Name, First Name (a); ...").

Note also that the pipol local database uses the "utf8mb4" character encoding together with the utf8mb4_general_ci collation, the latter meaning that all search terms have to be considered case-insensitive with diacritics-free mapping (e.g. "A", "ä", "á", and "a" match the same letter).

✔ pipol is shareable: do you need to add a publication list to your personal web page? Maybe to your institute/lab web page? Do you prefer to make the publication records processed by your own application? It's as easy as doing an http get request!

See below for more technical details about php usage, wordpress integration, and pipol web-api specifications.

https://www.readlet.it/apps/pipol/?aid=get_publications&output=html&sort=type&authors=Ferro,M.&institutes=ILC

$params = ['aid' => 'get_publications', 'output' => 'html', 'sort' => 'type', 'authors' => 'Ferro, M.', 'institutes' => 'ILC'];
readfile('https://www.readlet.it/apps/pipol/?'.http_build_query($params));

function pipol_get_publications($args)
{
  $default = ['aid'     => 'get_publications',
              'output'  => 'html',
              'sort'    => 'type',
              'ui_ajax' => 'true'];

  $params = array_merge($default, $args); // the 2nd will override the 1st

  $content = file_get_contents('https://www.readlet.it/apps/pipol/?'.http_build_query($params));
  return ($content === false ? '' : $content);
}

add_shortcode('pipol_get_publications', 'pipol_get_publications');

[pipol_get_publications lang="en" institutes="ILC" authors="Ferro, M." years="2009-" exclude_types="thesis;misc;technical_report" ui_title="Selected publications"]

https://www.readlet.it/apps/pipol/?aid=get_publications

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