Here is one suggestion: Don't fiddle with the UI of BD and maintain the usual behavior and appearance. Someone write a script, or else add in as a menu item somewhere, if it is to be built in to BD, an action that does something to the effect of, "identify duplicates; delete one of each pair with no questions asked (or alternatively: delete all but one in a group of identical references, in case of triples or more)"
It seems to me that there are two user actions here: (1) "Bibliography cleanup." Search the library for duplicates using BD's best heuristic, and then by hand decided whether they really are duplicates. There is an interesting case in which two records are duplicates as far as their main information goes, but then have different sets of keywords, annotations, or note fields. Although the duplicate detector would probably identify them as being the same, and they would produce the same output in many cases, they really are different. (2) "Mass merge." Merge bibliographies in which it's known that there are some duplicates that must be cleaned out with the least trouble possible. On Nov 3, 2007, at 7:23 AM, Holger Frauenrath wrote: > > On Nov 3, 2007, at 12:19 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: > >>> Hi, >>> >>> just as a question/suggestion: would it not be possible to let the >>> "select duplicates" command (or a new similar command) *display* all >>> duplicates (like a filter) but *select* all duplicate copies except >>> for one by default? Then, if the user does not care for the problem >>> you mentioned, removing duplicates would amount to choosing this >>> command and hitting delete. >>> >>> Best regards >>> Holger >> >> Displaying: no, as there is no UI reason why items are not displayed >> (and to reverse that). > > Yes, you are right, it is actually one of the things I like in > Bibdesk. Although, something like a "search group" (don't know > whether I use the right term here) for duplicates in combination with > a selection mechanism might work. > >> But what we can do is show a sheet and let the >> user decide how duplicates are selected. > > Sound good to me, too. Other people may be annoyed by a sheet, > though ... > > Holger > > > __ > Dr. Holger Frauenrath > ETH Zurich > Department of Materials > Wolfgang-Pauli-Str. 10, HCI H515 > CH-8093 Zurich > Switzerland > > Phone: (+41) 44 633 6474 > Fax: (+41) 44 633 1390 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Web: http://www.polychem.mat.ethz.ch/frauenrath/ > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ================================= Adam M. Goldstein PhD Assistant Professor of Philosophy Iona College -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.iona.edu/faculty/agoldstein/ tel: (914) 637-2717 post: Iona College Department of Philosophy 715 North Avenue New Rochelle, NY 10801 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
