On Jan 6, 2013, at 15:38 , Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Jan 3, 2013, at 15:48, John King wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> When exporting to RIS file format, Bibdesk does not appear to be including >> the local file path (L1). How can I make sure that this is included? >> >> (I am trying to export to Nvivo, which will only import RIS and certain >> non-Bibdesk compatible Endnote XML) >> >> Many thanks >> >> John > > It's right that is not included. I see we are explicitly not including > Local-Url (or linked files) in RIS export, so we have done so for some good > reason. Though I cannot remember exactly why (and have no time to find out > now.) As a guess, it's because BibDesk's export predates the addition of L1 to the RIS standard. As an alternate guess, it's because the specification is inadequate; the current standard says that L1 is "File Attachments," which is hopelessly vague. Using the wayback machine to get to the older, non-Excel-spreadsheet specification, we find that L1 was defined as: "Link to PDF. There is no practical limit to the length of this field. URL addresses can be entered individually, one per tag or multiple addresses can be entered on one line using a semi-colon as a separator." Presumably this could be a URL with a file scheme, but it's still pretty weak (isn't a semicolon allowed in a URL?). Anyway, you might be able to make this work by adding an L1 field to your references, set to the value of the first local file URL. That should be doable with AppleScript. I think BibDesk will pass that field through in RIS export, but haven't tried it. Adam ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. SALE $99.99 this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122412 _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
