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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