Follow-up... would it be possible to have a field in which one could enter a PMID, ASIN, DOI, or ISBN, and have all the relevant fields filled magically?
Librarything seems to have something like this, but only for ISBN/books. On 10/9/07, P Kishor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In my quest to put up my citations in a place where they can be shared > with others, I started exploring Connotea (<http://www.connotea.org>), > an open source online citations manager created by Nature.com and let > loose in the wild. > > Well, I started by importing my BibDesk bib into Connotea. After > whirring for about 20 mins, it reported that out of my 98 citations, > only 40 had been imported. The primary cause of not importing the bulk > of the remaining 58 was missing "URI, PMID, ASIN, or DOI." A quick > Google-ing explained to me what the heck that meant, and indeed, I > didn't have a "PubMed Unique Identifier", an "Amazon Standard > Identification Number", or a "Digital Object Identifier" let alone a > URI from which Connotea could have retrieved the requisite info. > > I am thankful for BibDesk being lenient and not rejecting my entries, > but now I am thinking -- what is it that I can do to make my > bibliography more "complete", "accurate", and "reliable." > > I realize this is not a BibDesk-specific question, but most of you > know waaaaay more than I do about citations and bibliographies, so I > hope you can teach me a few things here. Eventually I want my entire > BibDesk to be imported into Connotea (or any other such site that you > might suggest as being better) and back again, if required. > > Many thanks in advance. > -- Puneet Kishor http://punkish.eidesis.org/ Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies http://www.nelson.wisc.edu/ Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) http://www.osgeo.org/ Summer 2007 S&T Policy Fellow, The National Academies http://www.nas.edu/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
