On Apr 14, 2014, at 23:19, Christiaan Hofman <cmhof...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 14, 2014, at 23:04, Colin A. Smith wrote:
>
>> On Apr 12, 2014, at 14:46, Christiaan Hofman <cmhof...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 1. In the search group list, I believe all instance of “Web Of Science”
>> should be changed to “Web of Science”, this is more correct and consistent
>> with other search group titles (“Library of Congress”, etc.)
>
> That gives problems with backward compatibility. Also, it makes the easier to
> connect to the ID WOS that's also used a lot. Also, it's just a name.
I’m surprised the underlying implementation has to be case sensitive. To me it
just looks sloppy.
>> 4. The default journal titles are pretty unattractive (all caps), and
>> somewhat useless for making cited reference lists. I wouldn’t mind, except
>> that the ability to customize which XML tag is used was also lost. I find
>> the “abbrev_iso” tag the most useful. I have restored this lost ability in
>> my local working copy (see diff below) and am happy to commit it if there
>> are no objections. I use the following setting on my computer:
>>
>> defaults write edu.ucsd.cs.mmccrack.bibdesk BDSKWOKSourceXMLTagPriority
>> '("abbrev_iso", "source_abbrev", "source_title”)'
>
> I think using this hidden pref is not a good idea. Hidden prefs are generally
> a bad idea anyway, but this way especially. In fact, this one is so bad that
> none of us really understand the sense of it. We should just try the best
> ourselves.
It is a user-specified list of XML tag names that are used to prioritize which
XML tag is used to populate the “Journal” field. The first tag in the list that
exists in the XML entry is used. For instance, the above setting uses
abbrev_iso if it exists, otherwise falls back to source_abbrev, and otherwise
falls back to source_title. Users can find out what tags are available by
activating the BDSKAddISIXMLStringToAnnote hidden preference.
> So I hink we should use the source_title, but we do already remove the full
> caps (unless you have personally disabled that.) I am not so sure though
> about the alternative field (Iso-Source-Abbreviation). Shouldn't that be
> abbrev_iso? But I don't really know much myself of what's all going on there.
Automatic capitalization doesn’t work well in practice for a number of journal
names, for instance:
PLoS <anything>
IEEE <anything>
<pretty much anything with an acronym in the name>
In my experience, the abbrev_iso XML tag nearly always has the correct
capitalization without modification. It also includes correct punctuation for
abbreviations in the journal names, which is required in a number of reference
formats. (I personally remove the punctuation with the Import Publications
script hook.)
There’s also a usability issue with the default journal titles in WOK. If the
Container column is narrow in the table view, the width of the unabbreviated
name makes it difficult to know what the journal name is. For instance,
“JOURNAL OF…” is not very helpful. Therefore, just putting the abbrev_iso value
into another field name wouldn’t solve this issue.
I’d be happy with either of the following alternatives to a hidden field:
1. Add a field (say "Journal Tag:”) in the server configuration screen that
takes a space separated list of journal tags. The default could be source_title
and the code could always put source_title at the end of the list.
2. Make the abbrev_iso, source_abbrev, source_title priority the default
behavior.
Cheers,
Colin
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