The PubMed search and import functionality in BibDesk is great, but it
creates a large number of "bogus" fields. It also appends a period to
the end of the title and the year field is sometimes used as a date
field. I wrote a little AppleScript to clean up imported entries. I
know next to nothing about AppleScript, so I'm open to suggestions for
improvement. Right now I run the script by selecting it from the
scripts menu, but ideally it'd be run on every reference I import from
PubMed. Any ideas?
--
Mark
CleanPubmed.scpt:
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tell application "BibDesk"
if (count of documents) = 0 then
return
end if
set thePublications to selection of document 1
repeat with thePub in thePublications
-- remove period at end of title
set theTitle to title of thePub
if item -1 of theTitle = "." then
set theTitle to items 1 thru -2 of theTitle as text
end if
tell thePub
set value of field "Title" to theTitle
-- change values of the form "2009 Jan 1" to "2009"
set theDate to get value of field "Year"
set value of field "Year" to word 1 of theDate
-- remove bogus fields
set value of field "Address" to ""
set value of field "Au" to ""
set value of field "Crdt" to ""
set value of field "Da" to ""
set value of field "Dcom" to ""
set value of field "Dep" to ""
set value of field "Edat" to ""
set value of field "Gr" to ""
set value of field "Issn" to ""
set value of field "Jid" to ""
set value of field "Jt" to ""
set value of field "Language" to ""
set value of field "Lr" to ""
set value of field "Mh" to ""
set value of field "Mhda" to ""
set value of field "Oid" to ""
set value of field "Own" to ""
set value of field "Phst" to ""
set value of field "Pii" to ""
set value of field "Pl" to ""
set value of field "Pst" to ""
set value of field "Pt" to ""
set value of field "Rf" to ""
set value of field "Rn" to ""
set value of field "Sb" to ""
set value of field "So" to ""
set value of field "Stat" to ""
end tell
end repeat
end tell
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