Jekyll plugin providing a Liquid tag inserting bibliographic information links for blog posts, and scripts for walking a site and inserting posts into Greycite in bulk.
In a Jekyll layout or page, use:
{% greycite_bib_link type: TYPE %}
where TYPE is one of "bib" (for BibTeX citation entry) or "ris" for RIS formatted entry. These are the only two useful formats (for bibliography curation) that Greycite supports.
The code generated is very vanilla HTML, targeting a new tab or window. An example:
<a href=http://greycite.knowledgeblog.org/ris/?uri=http://notebook.madsenlab.org/evolutionary%20theory/2013/06/13/gabora2013-response-notes.html
target='_blank'>RIS Citation</a>The Liquid tag can obviously be wrapped in whatever DIV or formatting you like, given your layout. I find that Twitter Bootstrap has some excellent formatting options and miniature icons.
Greycite does not need to have your URI's in its database before it will respond to requests for bibliographic information. The first time a URI is requested by the plug-in, Greycite will pull the URL contents, parse it for metadata and assuming it finds good data (see next section), add it to the database and return bibliographic entries.
This process is not terribly fast, and can take single-digit seconds which are noticeable after you click the link.
This is avoidable by pre-adding all of the URI's on your Jekyll site to Greycite, which is done simply by looping over a list of URI's (perhaps from a web crawl of your site), and querying Greycite for them.
The Ruby script greycite-walk, is designed to do exactly that, and is callable from a Rakefile or other build script so that you can include it as a step in the build process for your site -- perhaps right after pushing fresh content to Github Pages, for example, you would crawl the new content and query Greycite to prime its cache.
Bibliographic information is returned nearly instantly once the URI's are cached by Greycite's database.
In order for Greycite to usefully index your content, you should include metadata in the HEAD portion of your default HTML template, so that Jekyll includes it in each completed HTML page. Carl Boettiger has an excellent discussion of semantic markup for his lab notebook which I followed pretty exactly.
My own layout includes metadata in Dublin Core, Google Scholar, and OpenGraph formats, and uses Jekyll variables to fill in many of the metadata aspects. Here is a snapshot of my current metadata header, in case you just want to use it:
<meta charset="utf-8"/>
<title>{{ page.title }}</title>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"/>
<meta name="description" content="{{ site.title }}"/>
<meta name="author" content="{{ site.author.name }}"/>
<!-- Get date last modified from git log. (Uses current time if file entry not found, e.g. projects/) -->
{% capture modified %} {{ page.path | git_modified }} {% endcapture %}
<!-- For posts, page.date is the date they are published under, which we use as their 'canonical' dc:date -->
{% if page.date %}
{% assign date = page.date %}
{% else %} <!-- If we don't have a page.date, then use modified time (pages) -->
{% assign date = modified %}
{% endif %}
<!-- Posts declare modified timestamps in the sidebar, so would be redundant to put here. But then
pages don't have a dc:modified... unless we give them their own (modified) sidebar?
-->
<!-- Ideally we would want date originally created from the _oldest_ git commit too...-->
<!-- RDFa Metadata (in DublinCore) -->
<meta property="dc:title" content="{{ page.title }}" />
<meta property="dc:creator" content="{{ site.author.name }}" />
<meta property="dc:date" content="{{date | date_to_xmlschema }}" />
<meta property="dc:format" content="text/html" />
<meta property="dc:language" content="en" />
<meta property="dc:identifier" content="{{ page.url }}" />
<meta property="dc:rights" content="CC BY-NC-SA 3.0" />
<meta property="dc:source" content="{{ site.title }}" />
<meta property="dc:subject" content="Anthropology" />
<meta property="dc:type" content="website" />
<!-- RDFa Metadata (in OpenGraph) -->
<meta property="og:title" content="{{ page.title }}" />
<meta property="og:author" content="{{site.url}}/bio.html" /> <!-- Should be Liquid? URI? -->
<meta property="og:site_name" content="{{ site.title }}" /> <!-- Same as dc:source? -->
<meta property="og:url" content="{{site.url}}{{ page.url }}" />
<meta property="og:type" content="website" />
<!-- Google Scholar Metadata -->
<meta name="citation_author" content="{{ site.author.name }}"/>
<meta name="citation_date" content="{{date | date_to_xmlschema }}"/>
<meta name="citation_title" content="{{page.title}}"/>
<meta name="citation_journal_title" content="{{site.title}}"/>