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April 13

bibliographic references in spreadsheet form?

I apologize, I cross posted this in Misc. but then thought someone in IT might have a good idea. What I want to do is to take output from Google scholar (or other similar sites) for a particular search (e.g., "reciprocal altruism, kin selection" and rather than have them listed as a bunch of entries in the web page to get the results in the form of a spreadsheet where each row represents a reference (a book, paper, video, etc.) and each column represents information such as title, author, subject, date published, etc. I'm helping a friend with a class project where we are using an ontology to show how it can help to organize those kinds of resources. But I want to have lots of data to show the real power of the system and to enter each reference manually is a pain, it would be so much better if we could just take the output from some database and load it into the ontology, which I can do if it's in spreadsheet format. And I know this is something that could be easily programmed in Python or some other language but while I was a good programmer at one point, I'm rusty and don't have time to get back up to speed. I hope that makes sense, please ask for clarification if needed and thanks for any ideas. --MadScientistX11 (talk) 22:53, 13 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]