Hi folks,
I have never had good experience importing data into another program
that I have exported from BibDesk. I love BibDesk for many of its
capabilities and flexibility, but it just doesn't fit my workflow for
now. This, of course, is my failing, not BibDesk's. I just haven't
found a good workflow. More on that in another email; for now, the
BibDesk format --
I exported my library, and tried to import it into Zotero, but the
import just wouldn't work, not with the entire library, not with a few
records from the library, not even with one record from the library.
Eventually I used bib2xml [1] to convert to MODS XML, and then
imported that into Zotero. Of course, none of my attached (linked)
files came through.
I tried the same with Sente. Fortunately, Sente was able to read the
BD export, but again, none of the attachments came through.
When I open the .bib file, I don't see any human readable information
for my linked file. I do see uuencoded kind of binary-to-text
gibberish. Here is an example --
@article{Chapin_2004_aa,
Author = {Mac Chapin},
Date-Added = {2007-01-23 10:05:03 -0600},
Date-Modified = {2007-12-29 11:56:46 -0600},
Journal = {World Watch Magazine},
Local-Url =
{file://localhost/Users/punkish/Documents/BibDesk/chapin-challenge_to_conservationists.pdf},
Month = {11},
Title = {A Challenge to Conservationists},
Year = {2004},
Abstract = {As corporate and government money flow into the three big
international organizations that dominate the "world's conservation
agenda," their programs have been marked by growing conflicts of
interest---and by a disturbing neglect of the indigenous peoples
whose land they are in business to protect.},
Bdsk-File-1 =
{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
FYTlNPYmplY3RfEEcuLi9Eb2N1bWVudHMvQmliRGVzay9DaGFwaW4vMjAwNC9BIENoYWxsZW5nZSB0byBDb25zZXJ2YXRpb25pc3QoYWEpLnBkZtIeHyYnoicjXE5TRGljdGlvbmFyeQAIABEAGgAfACkAMgA3ADoAPwBBAFMAXABiAGkAcAB4AIMAhQCIAIoAjACPAJEAkwCdAKoArwC3ALkCqQKuArcCwgLGAtQC2wLkAy4DMwM2AAAAAAAAAgEAAAAAAAAAKAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA0M=}}
Of course, the double-quotes in the Abstract give rise to Tex errors
(" not allowed at top-level or some nonsense like that). Getting back
to the location of the linked file, however, I might be missing this,
but I can't see any helpful information. In the previous generation of
BD, I had the "Local-Url" which very clearly stated that the file was
at
file://localhost/Users/punkish/Documents/BibDesk/chapin-challenge_to_conservationists.pdf.
Of course, now with the new way of doing things, it is actually at
"~/Documents/BibDesk/Chapin/2004/A Challenge to
Conservationist(aa).pdf" but I don't see that information anywhere in
the above record. Of course, it could be that gibberish, the value of
"Bdsk-File-1" but this way is too opaque for me.
Perhaps this is causing neither Zotero nor Sente to figure out where
the linked file is located. The Sente folks are being really nice and
are helping me with "pre-sales support" trying to figure out how to
import this correctly, but I am now wondering about the logic of such
a opaque way of storing things.
How do I extract from the above record the location of my linked file?
[1] http://www.scripps.edu/~cdputnam/software/bibutils/bibutils.html
--
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/
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