[uf-discuss] Re: X2C (Was Citation Microformat: Lazyweb...)

[Michael McCracken]

On 10/6/06, Michael McCracken <michael.mccracken at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/6/06, Michael McCracken <michael.mccracken at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Brian, I'm attempting to try your X2C service but I'm getting errors
> > and I'm having trouble pinning down what's going wrong.
> >
> > I'll take a look at the XSL but if I could put a request in for some
> > user-visible error reporting that'd help things along.
>
> So after I realized that it probably wanted valid XHTML to work with,
> I managed to get a first bibtex entry out of X2C. I used this URL:
> http://michael-mccracken.net/?q=node/2
> Which is marked up (incompletely) using a custom version of drupal's
> biblio module.
>
> From that publication I get the following BibTeX:
>
> @{
> TITLE="What's Working in HPC",
> ABSTRACT=" Productivity in High Performance Computing ("HPC") systems can be
>  difficult to define, complicated by the sometimes competing
>  motivations of the people involved. For example, scheduling policies
>  at many centers are geared toward maximizing system utilization, while
>  users are motivated only by the desire to produce scientific
>  results. Neither of these motivating forces directly relates to the
>  common metric widely put forward as a measure of merit in HPC: high
>  code performance as measured in floating-point operations per second
>  (FLOPS).
>
>  This paper evaluates some factors contributing to the net gain or loss of
>  productivity for users on today's HPC
>  systems, and explores whether or not those factors are accurately
>  being accounted for in the way systems are evaluated and scheduled.
>  Usage patterns are identified through job logs and ticket analysis,
> and further explained with
>  user surveys and interviews.
>  This paper reveals insight into productivity on current HPC systems,
>  where users' time is spent,
>  what bottlenecks are experienced,
>  and the resulting implications for HPC system design, use and administration.
> ",
> VOLUME="2",
> AUTHOR="Wolter, N.",
> }
>
> This isn't valid bibtex for three reasons:
> It's missing a key, a type, and the double-quotes around "HPC" are a
> syntax error.
>
> In bibtex you can enclose the fields in braces or double-quotes. I
> prefer braces, because then you don't need to worry about
> latex-escaping double-quotes inside the fields. (And many consumers of
> bibtex will still choke on even properly escaped double-quotes).
>
> For the missing elements, we should decide whether or not it's a
> SHOULD (so X2C needs a reasonable default) or a MUST, where I need to
> find a way to get that data in there.
>
> I think key/id and type (not format) are both SHOULDs.
>
> Finally, the authors should be accumulated. Currently it's only taking
> the first author.

A note, the example above didn't include the keywords for the item but
I've fixed that now. X2C seems to handle those just fine.

-mike

-- 
Michael McCracken
UCSD CSE PhD Candidate
research: http://www.cse.ucsd.edu/~mmccrack/
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