On 10/9/07, jiho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 2007-October-09  , at 22:02 , P Kishor wrote:
> > On 10/9/07, François Briatte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Sorry, what do you mean by 'my' file?
> >
> > I am not sure what you mean by that question. I am looking at my
> > response and I don't see any reference to "my file." I said
> > specifically (quoting myself) --
>
> The error message from CiteULike starts by:
>         "I got this error when I tried to parse your file"
> In this case "your file" is the file from P Kishor he is trying to
> import.
>
> >>> Thanks for the advice. I am now trying citeulike as suggested,
> >>> but not
> >>> very successful at this as well. I am getting a lot of errors
> >>> like so,
> >>> and then nothing is imported --
> >
> > everything else is errors reported by CituULike.
> >
> >> Also, warnings are normal, especially if you forget to mention the
> >> authors or use unconventional types.
> >
> > Yes, I would think so, no? Except, nothing gets imported. My CituULike
> > library is empty. Seems like I am using "unconventional types" except
> > I am not quite sure what convention to apply to the ones that are
> > erroneous as reported by CiteULike. Besides, as you yourself said,
> > CiteULike should import at least the others (I have around 100
> > entries, and less than 20 show up in the CiteULike's import error
> > log). But, nothing is imported.
>
> I suspect it to be caused by your citekey format. I am not sure CuL
> can deal with the colon ( : ) in the citekey. Given the error message
> (lots of colons inside) I guess CuL breaks citekeys at colons and
> trys to read the rest as a field, until the next colon. Try with
> another citekey format. The colons there are not very "safe" anyway.
>


yikes! Thanks for the tip... will try it. I didn't make up that
citekey format... that is what I got from BibDesk out of the box.
Anyway, will tinker with that and hopefully will be able to report
success.


-- 
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/

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