Open Citation
Project

Digital Libraries Initiative All-Projects Meeting, October 1999, Cornell University, USA

A joint NSF - JISC
International Digital Libraries Project

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of
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Technical Challenges - Styles

Citation data and styles

Convention in physics is to use a short-form style for citations, e.g. omit title of paper, standard abbreviations for journal titles, etc., providing relatively little data for database matching. Another challenge is the lack of consistency and legibility - to an automated process - of citations in unedited e-prints. A possible solution is to use a moderated bibliographic database, e.g. SLAC-SPIRES, to build and validate citation linking data and find identifiers for papers held in the archive. 

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