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
