OSL Internship II-2024 Project Ideas - 3 Improve PubMed and PubMedCentral modules

[EverVino]

Project Idea 3: Improve PubMed and PubMedCentral modules

Abstract

pymedx has two main modules to fetch papers medatada from PubMed and PubMedCentral which are working relativity well, bug due some updates in the APIs, the module present some error extracting authors from metadata, and has incomplete test to ensure the reproducibility and detect changes in the api.

The idea is to improve the module fixing detected bugs, complete the tests and write documentation.

License

https://github.com/osl-incubator/pymedx/blob/main/LICENCE

Code of Conduct

https://github.com/osl-incubator/pymedx/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

Current State

Not implement

Tasks

• Improve documentation
• Fix existing bugs
• Write more test

Expected Outcomes

• A improved PubMed and PubmedCentral modules
• Test with a coverage of 60% or above

Details

• Prerequisites:
  • Python
  • REST API
  • Python testing
• Expected Time: 240 hours
• Potential Mentor: Ever Vino

References

• osl-incubator.github.io/pymedx/
• https://github.com/gijswobben/pymed