titipata / wos_parser

Python parser for Web of science XML, Web of Science parser, WoS parser

Parser for Web of Science XML dataset

Python XML parser for Web of Science XML file. See example XML file from yadudoc/wos_builder. The implementation is based on yadudoc/wos_builder. I just make is as a function that can be easily integrate with others platform like Spark or multiprocessing.

Example

import wos_parser as wp
records = wp.read_xml('sample.xml')
authors = [wp.extract_authors(record) for record in records] # you can flatten and transform to dataframe

Parser Available

Using read_xml in order to read Web of Science XML file to list of element trees. Each element tree can be parsed to these following function to get dictionary or list of dictionary output.

• extract_pub_info
• extract_authors
• extract_addresses
• extract_publisher
• extract_funding
• extract_conferences
• extract_references
• extract_identifiers

Installation

Clone the repository and install using setup.py

$ git clone https://github.com/titipata/wos_parser
$ cd wos_parser
$ python setup.py install

or via pip

$ pip install git+https://github.com/titipata/wos_parser.git

License

MIT License Copyright (c) 2016 Titipat Achakulvisut

wos_parser's Issues

Large files handling

Hi,

Thank you for this ! But i'm facing an issue with large xml files, how can I modify this package to parse large xml files ?

Thanks again !

Best Regards

Implementing the following function

• extract_pub_info
• extract_conferences
• extract_funding
• extract_references