Parse microcitation and text match to BHL

This tool takes a "microcitation" such as "J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 22: 774.", attempts to convert it into structured data, and then match it to literature in the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL). Given a string to match (such as a taxonomic name) it will check whether that string occurs on the BHL page.

To use as an API simply GET the site URL with the citation as the parameter "q", and the string to match as "target", e.g.

?q=J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 22: 774.&target=Anarsia sagittaria

or POST a JSON document of the form { "q": "microcitation", "target": "string to match" }. The API will return results as JSON.