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      "note": "BOF: 'CDX' <field delimiter (usually space)>, followed by CDX options as described here: https://archive.org/web/researcher/cdx_file_format.php. This format could potentially be strengthened if necessary with the inclusion of one or more of the CDX options, which are to date an alphabetic character (upper or lower case, a-z, A-Z with a few exceptions) or the hash value",
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