acl-org/acl-anthology

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#689 opened on Dec 11, 2019

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Description

Many times people just download a PDF and want to automatically retrieve the metadata (say, on Zotero import). It would be cool to provide a service mapping md5sum(pdf) → canonical URL. We could implement this even in our static context just by creating a directory of symlinks from https://aclweb.org/anthology/hash/X → https://aclweb.org/anthology/Y. This could be computed separately in the same way we currently build paper thumbnails.

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Research direction
Investigate how to compute MD5 of PDF files and create a mapping directory structure with symlinks from /hash/X to /Y. Look at how thumbnails are currently built for guidance.
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python
Domain
backendapi
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2
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Half day
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Clear
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75