On Jan 20, 2012, at 4:47 PM, Rintze Zelle wrote: > On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Bruce D'Arcus <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 9:35 AM, Sylvester Keil <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I wrote anystyle-parser as a freecite replacement; my idea, going forward, > > was to turn it into a web service, like freecite, too. The ML model and the > > feature dictionary was optimized for my use cases, but could be easily > > improved. > > So just to clarify, the relevance here is in this approach, we'd need > a really smart parser, that would allow us to deconstruct a formatting > bibliographic entry into their component parts, and then to match that > against CSL macros fragments, to piece together a new style. > > With the caveat that formatted bibliographic entries are often lossy, so it > might be desirable to parse the entry, use the component parts to identify > the item (e.g. via CrossRef's lookup tools), retrieve more complete > bibliographic data for the item (e.g., once you know the DOI, you could > resolve it and scrape that page; this could be done with server-side Zotero > translators: > http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/19458/translators-server-side/ ), and run > that more complete bibliographic data through the CSL processor for all > styles.
Absolutely. I don't think it's feasible to parse bibliographies 'perfectly'. To have a suitably good parser and combine it with discovery tools is a really good idea. However, it doesn't help if the data you need to parse isn't really available online.
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