Reading XMP metadata is one thing, the real problem is that no one actually adds it. Such a thing could only be useful if it would somehow develop into a standard adopted by a large enough body of suppliers of PDFs, which I doubt will ever happen.
Christiaan On 24 Mar 2008, at 4:04 PM, Daniele Pontillo wrote: > I guess this is the same ol' problem I'd like to see as solved. > As I learned, there is no source code for the extensible metadata > platform (XMP), in order to tag pdfs with metadata and to avoid > copying and pasting information once you have a pdf in your library. > Hope to hear something new sooner or later. > > Dan > > Il giorno 24/mar/08, alle ore 12:58, Christiaan Hofman ha scritto: >> >> On 24 Mar 2008, at 12:29 PM, Sergio MORA wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I'm trying to find a way to use Google Scholar to automatically add >>> bibliographic information to an article (PDF). By far, I drag the >>> PDF >>> to Bibdesk, it creates a new publication with empty fields. What I'm >>> trying to do is to search the title of the article into Google >>> Scholar, download the Bibtex markup and "insert" it into the already >>> created publication. At this moment, I can't do this. >>> >>> 1. Is there a way to "paste" the bibtex data into a publication? >>> 2. Is there a way to do this process automatically? >>> >>> Thanks a lot. >>> >>> Sergio MORA >> >> There is no way to do it exactly as you describe. But what you can do >> is this: >> >> 1. drop the PDF to create an empty item with an attachment >> 2. look up the info in Google Scholar using the web group >> 3. hit the Import button for the item you want to use >> 4. go to the Library group, and select the item with the PDF >> attachment >> 5. drag the PDF from the side pane and drop it on the imported item >> 6. you can now delete the empty item with the PDF attachment >> >> Or you can: >> 1. look up the info in Google Scholar using the web group >> 2. hit the Import button for the item you want to use >> 3. go to the Library group >> 4. drop the PDF on the imported item >> >> Christiaan >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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 > > Daniele Pontillo > Chief, Echo Lab, Cardiology, Belcolle Hospital > Strada Sanmartinese, Viterbo, Italy 01100 > Work: +39 0761 339424 > Mobile: +39 3383734157 > Home: +39 0761 834051 > http://www.danpont.it > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
