PrIMe data: bibliography

Description

PrIMe Bibliography records contain information on bibliography needed to reference the source of information throughout the PrIMe Warehouse. PrIMe recognizes the following bibliography types:

• journal article
• meeting presentation
• monograph
• monograph chapter
• data collection
• patent
• personal communication
• technical report
• thesis
• WWW document
• other

In general, for each of the bibliography types we expect to record author's name, title, year of publication, a link to the abstract or a full text of the publication. variety of other data may be recorded, depending on the bibliography type. The following table summarizes the necessary and optional items for each of the bibliography types:

primeID

Bibliography records are designated by primeID identifier "b", followed by a unique 8-digit sequence; for example: b00001234. Record with primeID b00000000 is a special "dummy" record reserved for the case when biibliography entry is mandatory but actual reference is unknown ("Unknown reference").

Preffered Key

Each bibliography record may contain the "preferredKey", the entry that is a short, custom reference to the bibliography record. The prefered key does not uniquely identify the bibliography, but rather serves as a reminder of what is the bibliographic record when a data record reffers to it. Tyical preferred keys for bibliography are of the form of short bibliographic references, as "Frenklach et al., J. Phys. Chem., 79, 1148, 1975.", or "Djurisic, Z. M., Doctoral dissertation, 2004."

Links to full text: URL, PURL, DOI

Besides traditional cataloging references, as are Accession number, Call number, CIP, ISBN/ISSN, LCCN, and CODEN, PrIMe Bibliography recodes can also include a pointer to the abstract or full text when the publication is available online. The two "online" pointers are:

• Universal Resource Locator (URL, PURL). Points to a content on a web site where the text would be found in the html form, or could be downloaded in one of the common file formats (MS Word, or Adobe Acrobat, for example).
  
• Document Object Identifier (DOI). Relatively recently introduced identifier. Many of the publishers of scientific journals now assign DOI to every book or journal article. Using the DOI web service, one can provide the DOI and get an abstract or a full text directly from the publisher. For publications of commercial value (most scientific journals fall into this category), publisher may not show the full text of the requested publication if your computer does not have current subscription with the publisher.

Examples

• journal article
• meeting presentation
• monograph chapter
• data collection
• personal communication
• technical report
• thesis
• WWW document