Table 1

Metadata for medline_author table.

columnNameDef
xmlElementNameDef
columnTypeDef

pmid
PMID
Types.INTEGER
last_name
Author.LastName
Types.VARCHAR
fore_name
Author.ForeName
Types.VARCHAR
first_name
Author.FirstName
Types.VARCHAR
middle_name
Author.MiddleName
Types.VARCHAR
initials
Author.Initials
Types.VARCHAR
suffix
Author.Suffix
Types.VARCHAR
affiliation
Author.Affiliation
Types.VARCHAR
collective_name
Author.CollectiveName
Types.VARCHAR

columnNameDef: column names for the table,

xmlElementNameDef: XML element names that correspond to column names,

columnTypeDef: data type of each column

Oliver et al. BMC Bioinformatics 2004 5:146   doi:10.1186/1471-2105-5-146