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NAME

       med2ris - converts Medline/Pubmed bibliographic data to the RIS format

SYNOPSIS

       med2ris [-e logdest] [-f from-encoding] [-h] [-i] [-l loglevel] [-L logfile] [-o file]
               [-O file] [-q] [-t to-encoding] [-T type] [-y path]

DESCRIPTION

       med2ris converts Pubmed reference data into RIS data. The converter understands both the
       tagged Pubmed format (which superficially resembles RIS) and the XML format according to
       the PubMedArticle DTD[1]. In most cases med2ris is able to automatically detect the input
       data type.

OPTIONS

       -e log-destination
           log-destination can have the values 0, 1, or 2, or the equivalent strings stderr,
           syslog, or file, respectively. This value specifies where the log information goes to.
           0 (zero) means the messages are sent to stderr. They are immediately available on the
           screen but they may interfere with command output.  1 will send the output to the
           syslog facility. Keep in mind that syslog must be configured to accept log messages
           from user programs, see the syslog(8) man page for further information. Unix-like
           systems usually save these messages in /var/log/user.log.  2 will send the messages to
           a custom log file which can be specified with the -L option.

       -f from-encoding
           Select the input character encoding. Supported encodings are platform-dependent and
           can usually be found in iconv_open(3). If no encodings are specified, ISO-8859-1 aka
           Latin-1 is assumed.

       -h
           Displays help and usage screen, then exits.

       -i
           Output additional information about unknown or unused tags. Mainly useful to debug the
           conversion if the input format has changed.

       -l log-level
           Specify the priority up to which events are logged. This is either a number between 0
           and 7 or one of the strings emerg, alert, crit, err, warning, notice, info, debug,
           respectively (see also Log level definitions).  -1 disables logging completely. A low
           log level like 0 means that only the most critical messages are logged. A higher log
           level means that less critical events are logged as well.  7 will include debug
           messages. The latter can be verbose and abundant, so you want to avoid this log level
           unless you need to track down problems.

       -L log-file
           Specify the full path to a log file that will receive the log messages. Typically this
           would be /var/log/refdba.

       -o file
           Send output to file. If file exists, its contents will be overwritten.

       -O file
           Send output to file. If file exists, the output will be appended.

       -q
           Start without reading the configuration files. The client will use the compile-time
           defaults for all values that you do not set with command-line switches.

       -t to-encoding
           Select the output character encoding. Supported encodings are platform-dependent and
           can usually be found in iconv_open(3). If no encodings are specified, ISO-8859-1 aka
           Latin-1 is assumed.

       -T type
           Overrides the automatic type detection. Allowed values for type are "tag" and "xml"
           for the tagged Pubmed format and the XML Pubmed format, respectively.

       -y confdir
           Specify the directory where the global configuration files are Note: By default, all
           RefDB applications look for their configuration files in a directory that is specified
           during the configure step when building the package. That is, you don't need the -y
           option unless you use precompiled binaries in unusual locations, e.g. by relocating a
           rpm package.

CONFIGURATION

       med2ris evaluates the file med2risrc to initialize itself.

       Table 1. med2risrc
       ┌──────────┬──────────────────────┬──────────────────────────┐
       │VariableDefaultComment                  │
       ├──────────┼──────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┤
       │outfile   │ (none)               │ The default output file  │
       │          │                      │ name.                    │
       ├──────────┼──────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┤
       │outappend │ t                    │ Determines whether       │
       │          │                      │ output is appended (t)   │
       │          │                      │ to an existing file or   │
       │          │                      │ overwrites (f) an        │
       │          │                      │ existing file.           │
       ├──────────┼──────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┤
       │unmapped  │ t                    │ If set to t, unknown     │
       │          │                      │ tags in the input data   │
       │          │                      │ will be output following │
       │          │                      │ a <unmapped> tag; the    │
       │          │                      │ resulting data can be    │
       │          │                      │ inspected and then be    │
       │          │                      │ sent through sed to      │
       │          │                      │ strip off these          │
       │          │                      │ additional lines. If set │
       │          │                      │ to f, unknown tags will  │
       │          │                      │ be gracefully ignored.   │
       ├──────────┼──────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┤
       │from_enc  │ ISO-8859-1           │ The character encoding   │
       │          │                      │ of the input data        │
       ├──────────┼──────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┤
       │to_enc    │ ISO-8859-1           │ The character encoding   │
       │          │                      │ of the output data       │
       ├──────────┼──────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┤
       │logfile   │ /var/log/med2ris.log │ The full path of a       │
       │          │                      │ custom log file. This is │
       │          │                      │ used only if logdest is  │
       │          │                      │ set appropriately.       │
       ├──────────┼──────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┤
       │logdest   │ 1                    │ The destination of the   │
       │          │                      │ log information. 0 =     │
       │          │                      │ print to stderr; 1 = use │
       │          │                      │ the syslog facility; 2 = │
       │          │                      │ use a custom logfile.    │
       │          │                      │ The latter needs a       │
       │          │                      │ proper setting of        │
       │          │                      │ logfile.                 │
       ├──────────┼──────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┤
       │loglevel  │ 6                    │ The log level up to      │
       │          │                      │ which messages will be   │
       │          │                      │ sent. A low setting (0)  │
       │          │                      │ allows only the most     │
       │          │                      │ important messages, a    │
       │          │                      │ high setting (7) allows  │
       │          │                      │ all messages including   │
       │          │                      │ debug messages. -1 means │
       │          │                      │ nothing will be logged.  │
       └──────────┴──────────────────────┴──────────────────────────┘

DATA PROCESSING

       Keywords with multiple MeSH subheadings are split into multiple keywords with one MeSH
       subheading each. This simplifies searching for MeSH subheadings greatly.

       med2ris does not validate the input files. That is, the input files must stick to the
       rules of the data sources, otherwise the conversion results are not predictable.

FILES

       PREFIX/etc/refdb/med2risrc
           The global configuration file of med2ris.

       $HOME/.med2risrc
           The user configuration file of med2ris.

SEE ALSO

       RefDB (7), bib2ris (1), db2ris (1), en2ris (1), marc2ris (1).

       RefDB manual (local copy) PREFIX/share/doc/refdb-<version>/refdb-manual/index.html

       RefDB manual (web) <http://refdb.sourceforge.net/manual/index.html>

       RefDB on the web <http://refdb.sourceforge.net/>

AUTHOR

       med2ris was written by Markus Hoenicka <markus@mhoenicka.de>.

NOTES

        1. PubMedArticle DTD
           http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/DTD/pubmed_020114.dtd