On 4 Jan 2009, at 1:35 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:

> On Jan 4, 2009, at 12:31 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
>
>> Ah, I was looking at another change. I thought this was about a  
>> recent
>> change, this is a relatively old change.
>>
>> RIS is truly a mess, that's why the RIS parsers are a mess.
>
> That's a bit unfair, since RIS and MEDLINE actually are well  
> documented, public specifications.  The main problems I've seen are  
> due to certain publishing cartels that ignore the specs and dump  
> random stuff in RIS fields.
>

With"RIS" I mean "RIS in practice".

Christiaan

> MEDLINE should be more consistent than RIS, since NIH is the source  
> of the spec and the output.  I wish I'd seen this a few years ago:
>
> http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/mms/medlineelements.html


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