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This is the third open source citation parser I know of now. A welcome change from a year ago when I needed one and didn't know of any! But I can't help but think maybe people should be cooperating more instead of engineering their own wheels. Also curious if anyone has looked at all three and can compare and contrast and make a reccommendation. The other two I know about are: ParsCit -- http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/parsCit/ A CDL project I don't have a good home page for, but code is here: http://gales.cdlib.org/~egh/hmm-citation-extractor/ I've been keeping track because I have a use for this, although haven't had time to make use of any of them yet. Anyone want to compare and contrast these three projects? Might make a good very short article/review for the Code4Lib Journal if you wanted to. Jonathan >>> jean rainwater <[log in to unmask]> 09/12/08 2:25 PM >>> Please help us beta test "FreeCite", a new citation parser for non-structured bibliographic data. FreeCite is the result of collaboration between the Brown University Library and Public Display, a Providence-based software company founded by and employing many Brown grads. Public Display's core business is information extraction. Partial funding for this project was provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. FreeCite is implemented in Ruby on Rails and uses the CRF++ library implementation of conditional random fields. The model is trained on the CORA dataset with lexical augmentation from the Directory of Research and Researchers at Brown (DRR-B). The API and code are available at: http://freecite.library.brown.edu. Jean Rainwater Co-Leader, Integrated Technology Services Brown University Library Providence, RI 02912 401.863.9031 [log in to unmask]