enhanced PubMed links #640
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I'll change the links but I'm a bit confused. When I look at the old and new links the pages look the same to me. What am I missing? |
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The PomBase icon is only there in the new version - upper right part of page:
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... unless there's something more complicated going on with browser cache or cookies or some such - now I get the icon with either URL in the browser (Safari) I used to check the new version earlier, but not in a different browser (no icon with the old URL in Firefox). I'm confused now too. But maybe do the change in case it makes a difference for users ... ?? |
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We should priorities this if Kim needs to do anything. I think it will really up our traffick with the big prominent icon next to the full text link.... |
I've changed the link from the publication pages. Should I change the links in the documentation too?
I think that's it. If I load the URL containing "holding=pombase" it sets a browser cookie so that the "PomBase" logo is shown next time. So currently in Firefox I see the PomBase logo here: I assume they do this so that the logo for a resource shows only for users who have come to pubmed from that resource. That's not what we want! |
I guess so - I don't think we have any documentation links to papers that don't have any annotations, so they would all be in the LinkOut list. Good to have our various links to one paper do the same thing.
headdesk. |
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So is it possible to get the PomBase icon to display? I got a bit lost...... |
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oddly there are linkouts to Xenbase from this paper |
Yes - use the URLs with "holdings" (the "new" syntax in the original ticket summary). Those will always show the icon, I think regardless of cookie settings. |
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ok got it... |
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That doesn't make sense at all. Can't we request they change it? Surely it makes more sense to alert potential new users of the resource, rather than telling old users 'hey, you can come back to us'. |
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I think we can, but we need to supply a different link? |
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When the links are updated to the new syntax, we'll be doing pretty much all we can. (note to Kim: change doesn't seem to be live yet.)
That's why we're going to use the new link syntax - that's what it does. We have no control over which version anyone else uses to link to PubMed, nor over what PubMed's own default display is; the best we can do is update our links to the ones that reliably have our icon.
No, the links we supply are how to link from PubMed to us. This ticket is about link syntax we can use to link to them, to get the pombase icon to display for people who reach PubMed from one of our publication (or documentation) pages. |
Sorry about that. I've had some problems with updating because some libraries that the web site depends on broke over Christmas. I'm about to try the work-around mentioned here: rwf2/Rocket#513 |
Only add "holding=pombase" to the link to PubMed if there is annotation for the paper in PomBase. Refs #640
I missed that. I've fixed it for the next update. |
It's updated now. I think this is done. Please let me know if I've missed any links. |
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I can't see the PomBase logo on the PubMed pages any more. |
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Val has been in contact with NCBI about [an unrelated issue]. In one reply they said:
I don't understand the holding=pombase bit but maybe it's related to the missing logos. [edited to remove red herring -MAH] |
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This has nothing whatsoever to do with duplicate PMIDs, so I'm going to edit some comments to remove that distraction.
"Library holdings data" looks like internal NCBI/pubMed jargon, but the older comments on this ticket explain what the The urls with (I also swapped in a randomly selected working PMID in the URL examples.) Note that LinkOut is still a thing, and I still update our list of PMIDs to be linked to PomBase (all nicely documented for handoff, too). It's just a hell of a lot harder to find MOD links now because they're only listed at the bottom of the page, with no graphics :/ |
I've made that change. |
In the latest missive from NCBI LinkOut, we learned that we can link to a version of the PubMed abstract view that's spiffed up with a little PomBase icon that links back to our publication page (same link as in the LinkOut list below the abstract, but a lot less hidden).
To do so is conceptually very simple; in practice it's a little more complicated because it introduces conditionality.
If a PMID is on the list generated for LinkOut (criteria in #621; briefly, anything with annotation), then instead of the old URL syntax, use the new:
The PubMed links should stay unchanged for papers without annotation.
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