If you have an ongoing need to import from a particular offbeat database, Bookends (Mac bib software) has the capacity for building user-defined import filters that can deal with this sort of thing. For example, you define a filter called "Philosopher's Index", then define the tags they provide such as "availability" etc, and designate which field those will import into. This filter can be saved and reused. Once the info is imported through the filter, it can be exported in a standard format to BibDesk.
--Ingrid Giffin On 1/26/08 3:36 AM, "Christiaan Hofman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is certain;y no RIS (RIS has 2-letter field tags at the > beginning of the lines). It doesn't look like anything BibDesk can > read. My guess is that they took some kind of RIS and replaced the > tags by human readable names. > > Christiaan > > On 26 Jan 2008, at 3:02 AM, Adam M.Goldstein wrote: > >> This was exported from the philosopher's index as an "endnote" >> reference, and it had the extension .ris, but when I opened it in BD, >> there were no references in the new database it opened. Does this look >> like anything BD is supposed to be able to import? (This is just one >> of a set of references in the file I downloaded; but they all look >> like this.) >> >> Thanks! >> >> Database: PhilosopherIndex >> >> >> Availability: Iona College Libraries Catalog >> External Resources: Cite This Item >> Copyright: Copyright (c), 1940 to 2008, Philosopher's >> Information Center. All Rights Reserved. >> Title: THE ELEMENTS OF LOGIC. >> Author(s): BARKER, STEPHEN F >> Publication: NY : MCGRAW-HILL, 1985 >> Year: 1985 >> Language: ENGLISH >> SUBJECT(S) >> Descriptor: LOGIC >> TEXTBOOK >> Document Type: Monograph >> Update Code: 231 >> Accession No: 1161253 >> Provider: OCLC >> Database: PhilosopherIndex >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> ================================= >> Adam M. Goldstein PhD MSLIS >> 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: Microsoft >> Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. >> http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Bibdesk-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > Bibdesk-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
