Semantic Scholar API Integration for the Macroscope Collaboratory

@techreport{cnl2026semantic, author = {}, title = {Semantic Scholar API Integration for the Macroscope Collaboratory}, institution = {Canemah Nature Laboratory}, year = {2026}, number = {CNL-FN-2026-048}, month = {april}, url = {https://canemah.org/archive/document.php?id=CNL-FN-2026-048}, abstract = {An API key for the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph was obtained on April 11, 2026, providing authenticated access to Allen AI’s corpus of approximately 200 million scholarly papers. This field note documents the API’s capabilities and sketches the integration path into the Macroscope Collaboratory (CNL-TN-2026-047 v0.3) as a `literature\_search` worker. The integration addresses a gap identified during STR-001 first-light testing: the Collaboratory’s Priors step (Step 3 in the ten-step form model) currently has no systematic mechanism for surveying the peer-reviewed literature relevant to an investigation. Semantic Scholar’s keyword search, citation graph traversal, paper recommendations, and AI-generated TLDR summaries provide exactly this capability, complementing the `web\_search` worker’s coverage of grey literature, agency reports, and news sources.} }