Dr. William B. Grant, Marlbank Drive, Yorktown, VA 23692-4353, USA. Phone 804-864-5846. Dr. Grant compiled and provided original text documents containing over 3000 citations used in the searchable field database. Updates to his database will be provided by Dr. Grant, and these will be added to the on-line service as frequently as possible.
Editing the Citations:
The original files received from Dr. Grant were delivered in WordPerfect 5.1 format. These files were converted to ASCII text files and manually tagged using delimiters to separate unique fields. These delimiters were used to identify the selected fields to be parsed using a C program. These parsed fields were then ingested into a relational database (Oracle) and assigned unique identification tags by which they can be accessed on-the-fly using the on-line service.
Disclaimer:
Significant efforts have been made to check the quality and accuracy of the data provided in this database. However, errors and missing pieces of information will inevitably appear with such a large database. Corrections and additions to the database can be submitted from the submit additional citations page, or can be emailed directly to ozone@ciesin.org.
