Re: Direct extraction of BibTeX record from a doi

M J Carley wrote: 
I've taken on the job of collating a bibliography from data supplied
by other people and I'm looking for a short cut. Is there a tool which
will take a digital object identifier and give me back a BibTeX entry?


Given that a DOI contains a registrant-unique suffix
(cf. http://www.doi.org/handbook_2000/enumeration.html), I'd think you'd
have to construct a large database of registrants and how each maps
articles to DOI suffixes.  For example, the 10.1109 prefix represents the
IEEE (AFAICT).  The "IPDPS.2004.1303014" is easy to map to
"BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of the International Parallel and Distributed
Processing Symposium}" and "YEAR = 2004" but 1303014 seems to be merely
a sequential number assigned to each IEEE article.  A little trickier
are DOIs like 10.1109/4434.588295 which you just have to know map to
some article in IEEE Concurrency (although some IEEE Concurrency articles'
suffixes begin with MCC.<year> -- strange).

> I've tried using crossref.org which gives me data in its own format
> which I can run through a sed script but I'd be grateful to know if
> there is something more elegant.

Doesn't crossref.org just take you to the registrant's site or did I miss
the link which gives you data in a standard format?  Also, does crossref.org
search only its own registrants or all DOIs from all registrars?  In any
case, if a sed script works for you, that's probably your best bet.

-- Scott

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