Hello!
A very unstructured first post to the developer list, I’m sorry for
that.
>> Adam, thanks for your trust in my Xcode knowledge, but right now I
>> really don't know a thing about all these things (obj-c, xcode, svn,
>> etc.) - tough learning curve, I guess.
>> I currently have XCode 1.5 installed here on my panther machine, the
>> BD
>> wiki says I need 2.2 or above, so probably I can read the
>> documentation
>> but that won't help much, so sorry…
>
> We need to update that to require 2.5, I think. BibDesk hasn't been
> buildable on Panther for a very long time, so don't even bother trying
> that. If you want to get into it, the developers list is a good place
> for questions.
>
> Sounds like Christiaan fixed your problem, so this is likely
> irrelevant for you!
Well, thanks Christian! But unfortunately, it is not really a fix.
The only thing that I see is that querying the catalogue I indicated
in one of my earlier mails to the bibdesk-users list is that one field
(author) is correctly imported to BD. My guess is that MARC and MAB2
both indicate the author using field 100 or a subfield of 100…
>> I'll have a look next week when I have access to my office mac again
>> (or
>> maybe I will be able to swap the hard disk of my PowerBook G4 (the
>> old
>> one is quite full) and do a clean Leopard install, but I think this
>> also
>> might take some time this weekend.
>
> Slightly OT now, but Leopard itself runs nicely on a PowerBook.
> However, after dealing with Xcode 3's text editing performance on my
> PowerBook G4 (1.33/1GB) for the last year, I broke down and got a
> MacBook Pro (2.2/2GB) a couple of weeks ago. My BibDesk build times
> have gone from 30--40 minutes to 5 minutes for a full clean/
> recompile. That's about 3x faster than my dual 1.8 G5 at work, as
> well.
Ok, successfully exchanged the HDD of my PowerBook, still running
Panther there…
Now, on my office mac, I installed xcode tools, ran the getBibDeskSVN
script and opened Bibdesk.xcodeproj in XCode 3.0.
I think I found the fix that Christiaan introduced in BDSKMARCParser.m:
> // German libraries are converting from MAB to MARC, but they
> sometimes just leave the leader from the MAB2 format, so we'll
> accept that too
> pattern = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"^[0-9]{5}[a-z][a-zA-Z0-9 \
> \-\\.]{4}[0-9]{7}[a-zA-Z0-9 \\-\\.]{6}[a-z]([0-9]{12})+%C",
> fieldTerminator];
> AGRegex *MABRegex = [AGRegex regexWithPattern:pattern];
My guess is that the output that I get from aleph.univie.ac.at is not
at all MARC, but MAB2, but I might be wrong (just a small comment to
Christiaan’s comment in the code), but I’m waiting for confirmation
from the library.
What’s next? ;)
Sorry, being a non-developer makes it a little hard to understand
what’s going on in Xcode…
Hey folks, I just managed to compile the z3950Test.app and try some
queries, does that mean I’m already some kind of not-so-non-
developer? ;)!
At the moment I see two possible routes (the third is the libraries
using proper MARC21 syntax, which probably won’t happen in a decade or
so):
a) introduce some kind of MAB2-MARC interpreter (like Endnote seems to
use (certainly this is OT, but I think that’s the way the Austrian
libraries implemented their "USMARC" syntax with EN: The endnote
connection file seems to involve a concordance of category (i.e. "100
$aAuthor$bAuthor" or "412 $aPublisher" in EN’s terminology)) and then
parse with the existing MARC parser (like in the case of
isMARCXMLString), I could try with some XSL transformations (if the
XML format that z3950Test.app shows is used as an intermediate format
for BibDesk, but I might be completely wrong)
or b) try to do some (at least basic) MAB2 support. Still, I don’t
know really what this would mean.
For both, I can probably give some knowledge of what MAB2 category
denotes which BibTeX field, but for more, I’ll need some advice since
I’m a C illiterate as of now.
Hmm, that’s it for the moment.
All the best,
Stephan
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