Indeed. I sent Thomson ResearchSoft a suggestion to define a tag for DOI in the RIS format. However, as I know that company I do not expect much response from them and it may well take years before they will do anything about that issue. They are known to have tried to delay the use of doi for years, since they wanted us to depend on their IS GOTO system (ISI WOS misuses its monopolistic position since a long time) and they prefer to do with the tags what the want as EndNote or Reference Manager advance (slowly of course, very slowly).
Thus I think "we could add DO -> DOI as a valid translation in BibDesk" might be a useful way to go. BTW, I have already written an AppleScript fixing all sorts of errors exporting services are making and have just added a fix for the 'Do' 'Doi' issue. But other users of BD might profit more if that enhancement would be done in BD itself. Regards, Andreas On 30/Dec/2010, at 11:47 , Christiaan Hofman wrote: > The problem is that DO is not a valid RIS tag > <http://www.refman.com/support/risformat_intro.asp>. In fact, RIS does not > define any tag for DOI, which also means that it can be basically anywhere, > see e.g. <http://support.biblioscape.com/node/1571>. I guess ID would be the > most appropriate valid tag, but the problem is that it would not be possible > to know whether it's a DOI. Ideally, the RIS format should be updated adding > the DO tag, but chances for that are very small. In this case, as it would > not otherwise seem to lead to problems with the way we set things up, we > could add DO -> DOI as a valid translation in BibDesk. You could also use a > script hook to change Do to Doi. > > Christiaan > > On Dec 30, 2010, at 10:49, Fischlin Andreas wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> The AGU journal REVIEWS OF GEOPHYSICS - as many other AGU journals - offers >> a "Export RIS Citation" service. I found that these files contain a DOI >> field encoded similar to this >> >> DO - 10.1029/2010RG000345 >> >> yet, when I import such a ris file into BibDesk (latest nightly Version >> 1.5.3 (2069) from 29.Dec.2010) a field 'Do' is generated, not a field 'Doi'. >> Can anyone enlighten me where to tackle this problem? Should BibDesk be >> improved to make a Doi field instead of the Do field? Should AGU be asked to >> use a different encoding? >> >> Thanks for any ideas on this issue. >> >> Regards, >> Andreas >> >> >> ETH Zurich >> Prof. Dr. Andreas Fischlin >> Systems Ecology - Institute of Integrative Biology >> CHN E 21.1 >> Universitaetstrasse 16 >> 8092 Zurich >> SWITZERLAND >> >> [email protected] >> www.sysecol.ethz.ch >> >> +41 44 633-6090 phone >> +41 44 633-1136 fax >> +41 79 221-4657 mobile >> >> Make it as simple as possible, but distrust it! >> ________________________________________________________________________ >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node allows customers >> to consolidate database storage, standardize their database environment, >> and, >> should the need arise, upgrade to a full multi-node Oracle RAC database >> without downtime or disruption >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl >> _______________________________________________ >> Bibdesk-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node allows customers > to consolidate database storage, standardize their database environment, and, > should the need arise, upgrade to a full multi-node Oracle RAC database > without downtime or disruption > http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl > _______________________________________________ > Bibdesk-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node allows customers to consolidate database storage, standardize their database environment, and, should the need arise, upgrade to a full multi-node Oracle RAC database without downtime or disruption http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
