Abstract
The application described has been designed to create bibliographic entries in large databases with diverse sources automatically, which reduces both the frequency of mistakes and the workload for the administrators. This new system uniquely identifies each reference from its digital object identifier (DOI) and retrieves the corresponding bibliographic information from any of several online services, including the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data Systems (ADS) and CrossRef APIs. Once parsed into a relational database, the software is able to produce bibliographies in any of several formats, including HTML and BibTeX, for use on websites or printed articles. The application is provided free-of-charge for general use by any scientific database. The power of this application is demonstrated when used to populate reference data for the HITRAN and AMBDAS databases as test cases. HITRAN contains data that is provided by researchers and collaborators throughout the spectroscopic community. These contributors are accredited for their contributions through the bibliography produced alongside the data returned by an online search in HITRAN. Prior to the work presented here, HITRAN and AMBDAS created these bibliographies manually, which is a tedious, time-consuming and error-prone process. The complete code for the new referencing system can be found on the HITRANonline GitHub website.
Highlights
Knowledge of spectroscopic parameters for transitions between energy levels in atoms and molecules is essential for interpreting and modeling the interaction of radiation with different media
A digital object identifier (DOI) is a string of numbers, letters and symbols used to permanently identify an article or document and link to it to its online original source; a DOI is assigned to almost every work that is published in the modern age [17]
In this paper we describe a new, automated referencing system to provide consistent, accurate and detailed bibliographies to every source of data in scientific databases
Summary
Knowledge of spectroscopic parameters for transitions between energy levels in atoms and molecules is essential for interpreting and modeling the interaction of radiation (light) with different media. In order to aid researchers, spectroscopic parameters are being compiled into reference databases. The HITRAN (high-resolution transmission) molecular spectroscopic database [1] is a compilation of spectroscopic parameters used to simulate and analyze the transmission and emission of light in gaseous media, with an emphasis on planetary atmospheres. HITRAN has been considered to be an international standard which provides one recommended value per parameter for millions of transitions for different molecules. Commencing with the HITRAN1986 edition [2], HITRAN started to provide reference mapping for the line positions, transition intensities, and broadening coefficients due to the pressure of air
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