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.
>