Description
Our guest today is Dr. Vincent F. Scalfani. Vincent serves as the director of research computing services at the University of Alabama Libraries, providing leadership and support for the newly evolving research computing services across the disciplines. Additionally, he serves as subject liaison for chemical sciences and mathematics. Before joining the University of Alabama in 2012, he earned a PhD in chemistry from Colorado State University.
His research interests include chemical information and cheminformatics. Today, we’re going to be talking about a project that has been ongoing, a project that I am just absolutely in love with. It’s the University of Alabama Libraries Scholarly API Cookbook, which is an open-access online book featuring concise code examples or recipes that illustrate how to interact with various scholarly web service APIs.
These APIs enable researchers to automate search queries, customize data sets, and more easily integrate their information workflows into downstream data analysis processes. Launched in 2022, the cookbook is continually enhanced and updated by student programmers at the libraries. Vin and I have been on faculty here at the university libraries for about 13 years.
Season: 5
Episode: 2
Date: 3/2025
Presenter: Vincent Scalfani
Topic: Scholarly API Cookbook
Tags: Coding; Scholarly API research; research computing