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Hi Jean, That's great news that you'll be able to develop a citation parsing service. In addition to the parser's availability through an API hosted at Brown, will you also be releasing the parser under an open source license? -Raymond jean rainwater wrote: > Back on July 17, 2007 Jonathan Rochkind started a thread on citation parsing: > > "Does anyone have any decent open source code to parse a citation? I'm > thinking about a completely narrative citation like someone might > cut-and-paste from a bibliography or web page..." > > We hope to develop such a service at Brown thanks to funding for a > one-year programming position from the Mellon Foundation. > > The Brown University Library invites applications for a Senior > Research Library Programmer, a one-year position funded by the Andrew > W. Mellon Foundation. The Programmer will develop a web-based citation > parser which will operate with a high degree of accuracy on any > free-text (non-fielded) bibliographic data. The Programmer will test > and implement the parser on the publication data currently in the > Directory of Research and Researchers at Brown, and will make the > parser universally available via an API service hosted at Brown. >