On Wednesday, July 18, 2007, at 01:51PM, "flip phillips" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Just curious if anyone has written any scripts for normalizing/ >homogenizing/(whatever that database word is for making things that >are 'close to the same' to be 'the same') journal titles and author >names? > >I've got Koenderink, JJ, Koenderink Jan J, Koenderink J.J., >Koenderink J, Koenderink Jan (he's prolific :) >I've got Perception & Psychophysics (correct), Perception and >Psychophysics, P & P, Perc & Psych > >I do them by hand usually, but it would be nice for a more >'relational database' approach where there is one entity called Jan >Koenderink, an entity called P&P, etc. My guess is that, right now, >the bibdesk code is flat-database-esque? >So scripts would seem to be the way to go for now.
If you group by Author/Editor or other Person field, BibDesk will attempt to do this sort of matching for you, and you can edit the name for all entries by double-clicking it in the group field. We don't currently have a similar mechanism for other fields, so you're stuck with a script-based approach there. -- adam ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
