One example:

Here's the citation I have in hand:

Noordzij M, Korevaar JC, Boeschoten EW, Dekker FW, Bos WJ, Krediet RT et al.
The Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative (K/DOQI) Guideline for Bone
Metabolism and Disease in CKD: association with mortality in dialysis
patients. American Journal of Kidney Diseases 2005; 46(5):925-932.

Here's the output from ParsCit. Note the problem with the article title:

<algorithm name="ParsCit" version="1.0">
<citationList>
<citation>
<authors>
<author>M Noordzij</author>
<author>Korevaar JC</author>
</authors>
<volume>2005</volume>
<title>Boeschoten EW, Dekker FW, Bos WJ, Krediet RT et al. The Kidney
Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative (K/DOQI) Guideline for Bone
Metabolism and Disease in CKD: association with mortality in dialysis
patients</title>
<journal>American Journal of Kidney Diseases</journal>
<pages>46--5</pages>
</citation>
</citationList>
</algorithm>

There's more but basically it isn't accurate enough. It's very good but not
good enough for what I need at this juncture.  OpenURL resolvers like SFX
are generally only as good as the metadata they are given to parse.  I need
a high level of accuracy.

Maybe that's a pipe dream.

Steve

On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Nate Vack <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Just out of curiosity, what makes parscit not optimal for this
> purpose? Is it too slow? Not accurate enough?
>
> I ask, as I've thought of doing similar things but haven't explored
> the software deeply enough to know if it'd work.
>
> Cheers,
> -Nate
>
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Steve Oberg <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Jason,
> >
> > Thanks, yes, I knew of this effort and have actually spent a lot of time
> > working with this same software (or rather the same underlying software).
> > But I'm not sure it does enough or does it well enough for me at this
> point.
> > I'd like to take a list of one or two, up to hundreds of citations and
> dump
> > it into a web form and output SFX URLs as a result.
>