RFC 1357: A Format for E-mailing Bibliographic Records

Introduction

This is the first draft of this document. Please send any comments to dana@acm.org

Description

RFC 1357, a memo, not a standard, defines a format for E-mailing bibliographic records of technical reports. It was designed to be easy to automatically parse, yet not as complex as something like MARC. There hasn't been much use of RFC 1357 in my experience. Its main limitation seems to be that it only handles tech reports.

References

rfc1357.txt is the definition of the format.

Software Support

I don't know any tools that handle this format, though it should be easy enough to support.

Examples

The standard journal example cannot be represented accurately in this format, as it is not a technical report. Here is the example given in the memo.


 BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.0
          ID:: OUKS//CS-TR-91-123
       ENTRY:: January 15, 1992
ORGANIZATION:: Oceanview University, Kansas, Computer Science
       TITLE:: The Computerization of Oceanview with High
                   Speed Fiber Optics Communication
        TYPE:: Technical Report
    REVISION:: 2, FTP retrieval information added
      AUTHOR:: Finnegan, James A.
     CONTACT:: Prof. J. A. Finnegan, CS Dept, Oceanview Univ, Oceanview,
                   KS 54321  Tel: 913-456-7890  <Finnegan@cs.ouks.edu>
      AUTHOR:: Pooh, Winnie The
     CONTACT:: 100 Aker Wood
        DATE:: December 1991
       PAGES:: 48
   COPYRIGHT:: Copyright for the report (c) 1991, by J. A. Finnegan.
                   All rights reserved.  Permission is granted for any
                   academic use of the report.
   RETRIEVAL:: For full text with color pictures send a self-addressed
                   stamped envelope to Prof. J. A. Finnegan, CS Dept,
                   Oceanview University, Oceanview, KS 54321.
   RETRIEVAL:: ASCII available via FTP from JUPITER.CS.OUKS.EDU with the
                   pathname PUBS/computerization.txt.  Login with FTP,
                   username ANONYMOUS and password GUEST.
                   File size: 123,456 characters
 CR-CATEGORY:: D.0
 CR-CATEGORY:: C.2.2 Computer Sys Org, Communication nets, Net Protocols
      SERIES:: Communication
     FUNDING:: FAS
    CONTRACT:: FAS-91-C-1234
  MONITORING:: FNBO
    LANGUAGE:: English
       NOTES:: This report is the full version of the paper with the
               same title in IEEE Trans ASSP Dec 1976

Common problems

None known.

Format Description

See the RFC for complete details.

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18 December 1994

Dana Jacobsen
dana@acm.org