RFC 1807 (rfc1807) - Page 1 of 15
A Format for Bibliographic Records
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Network Working Group R. Lasher
Request For Comments: 1807 Stanford
Obsoletes: 1357 D. Cohen
Category: Informational Myricom
June 1995
A Format for Bibliographic Records
Status of this Memo
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does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of
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Abstract
This RFC defines a format for bibliographic records describing
technical reports. This format is used by the Cornell University
Dienst protocol and the Stanford University SIFT system. The
original RFC (RFC 1357) was written by D. Cohen, ISI, July 1992.
This is a revision of RFC 1357. New fields include handle,
other_access, keyword, and withdraw.
Introduction
Many universities and other R&D organizations routinely announce new
technical reports by mailing (via the postal services) the
bibliographic records of these reports.
These mailings have non-trivial cost and delay. In addition, their
recipients cannot conveniently file them, electronically, for later
retrieval and searches.
Publishing organizations that wish to use e-mail or file transfer to
obtain these announcements can do so by using the following format.
Organizations may automate to any degree (or not at all) both the
creation of these records (about their own publications) and the
handling of the records received from other organizations.
This format is designed to be simple, for people and for machines, to
be easy to read ("human readable") and create without any special
programs.
This RFC defines the format of bibliographic records, not how to
process them.
Lasher & Cohen Informational