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- MedCard 0.93 - MedLine™ to TAB-delimited file Converter
- © by Vincenzo Della Mea, University of Udine, Italy
- DellaMea@DiMI.UniUd.It, http://www.dimi.uniud.it/~dellamea/
-
- This archive contains three files: this README, an application created with
- Hypercard (MedCard 0.9ß), and a Filemaker Pro™ file (MedMaker).
- MedCard 0.93 converts files from Medline™ to TAB-delimited text files to be
- imported in databases; MedMaker is a Filemaker™ example document that may import the
- output files of MedCard.
-
- INSTRUCTIONS
- Select the fields to be exported, click on the Convert button, insert the name
- of the source file, then the name of the generated file and wait... MedCard
- 0.93 is very slow.
-
- If you edit something in the field Topic (e.g. keywords), your generated file
- will have an additional field named "Topic" with the same edited content for
- each record. This allows to maintain reference files with different searchable
- topics.
- With Headers generates also a field name record (do not use this option if you
- use the enclosed Filemaker™ example).
-
- Authors and source fields are formatted with the usual rules:
- Author1, Author2, .., AuthorN. Title. Journal year; number:startpage-endpage.
- Note: the source field is not really standardized in Medline™, so in some rare case my translation algorithm fails.
-
- DISCLAIMER
- MedCard 0.9ß is distributed as is, and likely it has some bug.
- MedCard 0.9ß is postcardware; if you find it useful, please send me a nice
- postcard (no e-mail, please) at this address:
- Vincenzo Della Mea
- Dept. of Pathology, University of Udine
- p.le S.Maria della Misericordia
- 33100 UDINE ITALY
-
- BUG REPORT
- If you find bugs, send me a description by e-mail (dellamea@dimi.uniud.it).
- Suggestion are welcome as well.
- Starting from version 1.0 I will release directly the stack instead of the
- application (actually the code is too rough...).
-