I looked at the code, and it does not ask for a new item, only for an  
item that already has some fields filled. That makes sense.

It also seems to use any META tag, that might be a bit too much.

Christiaan

On 6 Nov 2007, at 7:36 PM, jiho wrote:

>
> On 2007-November-06  , at 19:10 , Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
>> On Tuesday, November 06, 2007, at 10:02AM, "jiho"
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> On 2007-November-06  , at 18:33 , Christiaan Hofman wrote:
>>>> It finds as much data as is available an as we know about. So if it
>>>> does not fill in much it simply does not find more. It can be
>>>> that it
>>>> is data we don't know about, but more probable is that the data is
>>>> not well formed or is simply not available.
>>>
>>> Thanks for the answer. Is there a way for me to "see" this data
>>> because in the second case, BibDesk detects dublin core data but  
>>> does
>>> not add _anything_ to the publication info, so that's strange. I
>>> guess it is a problem of malformation in the data supplied by the
>>> journal and I would like to report it to them. To do so, I should
>>> know what to expect and what they give.
>>
>> Do you get a message that the page has Dublin Core META tags?  It
>> looks to me as if BibDesk may be misinterpreting that page as
>> containing Dublin Core data.  Mike is responsible for that code, so
>> hopefully he can explain what's going on; I don't have a clue about
>> the data requirements.
>
> I get a message indeed, a sheet coming out telling me:
>
> Autofill Bibliography Information
>
> Do you want me to autofill information from Dublin Core META tags?
> This may overwrite fields that are already set.
>
>
> But its occurence is indeed strange.
>
> For the first link, when I go directly to this page in BibDesk:
>       http://compbiol.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=cite-
> builder&doi=10.1371/journal.pcbi.0010057
> the info is filled automatically for me (just misc and some
> keywords), without asking anything. Now if I go to this page:
>       http://compbiol.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-
> document&doi=10.1371/journal.pcbi.0010057
> (which also auto-fills metadata the same way) and then click on the
> citation link (right column) which takes me to the address just
> above, the sheet appears.
>
>
> For the second link, when going directly to this page in BibDesk:
>       http://www.int-res.com/abstracts/meps/v347/p39-49/
> I don't get the sheet. But when I go to the contents page:
>       http://www.int-res.com/abstracts/meps/v347/
> and then click the link to the original page: MEPS 347:39-49 (third
> research article), I get the sheet.
>
> So it seems there is a difference between when I visit the page by
> directly entering the address or by navigating inside bibdesk.
> That's probably why Christiaan is not seeing anything when going
> straight to the addresses I sent in the previous email.
>
> JiHO
> ---
> http://jo.irisson.free.fr/



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