scape author info from linked papers?

[megbedell]

We would like to compile a database of authors who are writing relevant papers to the group. Can we find a way to detect all links to papers that get dropped in the #papers channel, follow them, scrape metadata to get names (and ideally affiliations) for all authors, and incorporate those in a running database?

[megbedell]

Suggestion: maybe what we want is a shared ADS library? It appears to be fairly straightforward to go from arXiv ID to corresponding ADS entry. And that way we can take advantage of the slick ADS features like Author Network plots.