From: Alexander H. M. <ah...@re...> - 2007-03-27 07:17:43
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On Mar 27, 2007, at 12:02 AM, Simon Spiegel wrote: > > On 27.03.2007, at 00:57, Alexander H. Montgomery wrote: > >> I've updated my book AppleScripts to search WorldCat as well as >> Amazon and the Library of Congress; these offer a quick way of fixing >> existing book cites or adding new ones. All are available at >> >> <http://people.reed.edu/~ahm/Projects/Citation/BibDesk/> >> >> There are three locator scripts (WorldCat, ECampus, and Amazon), a >> script to add WorldCat URLs, and three scripts to quickly fix and/or >> add books to your library. The README for the latter is below. > > Thank you very much, really cool stuff. Two questions/suggestions: > > - Could the Amazon scripts be localized, for example to use them with > amazon.de? Since I copied them from your scripts, yes. =3D) The three BookScripts should work with .de; scroll down through =20 BookLib and change property searchCountry : "usa" to property searchCountry : "de" The Book Locator Amazon script should work for .de by substituting =20 amazon.de (or wherever) for amazon.com as well. -AHM > - I wonder if at least some of this functionality could be directly > integrated into BibDesk, for example, Amazon search as part of the > search groups. It would require adding an Amazon XML parser. I think there's one =20 that could be borrowed from Books: http://macupdate.com/info.php/id/12713/books But I don't know if the licenses are compatible. The intended functionality is slightly different than the Search =20 Groups; part of the purpose of the scripts is to search the Web for =20 books (the Locator scripts), and part of them is to correct existing =20 data selectively while maintaining any metadata you already have. -AHM > > simon > > >> >> -AHM >> >> -- >> >> --BookScripts >> --Version 0.4.0 2007-03-26 Added WorldCat, SearchOrder, ISBN13 to >> ISBN10 conversion >> --Version 0.3.1 2007-02-07 Fix for Add to ISBN script >> --Version 0.3.0 2007-01-15 First public release >> --Comments to ah...@re... >> >> This script suite contains three scripts for pulling down book >> information from the Library of Congress, WorldCat, or Amazon to >> BibDesk. >> >> WARNING: Use at your own risk. Always make a backup copy of your data >> before using these scripts. >> >> Installation: >> 1)Place all files in the "Put in ~/Library/Application Support/ >> BibDesk/Scripts" folder in ~/Library/Application Support/BibDesk/ >> Scripts/ >> 2)Place all files in the "Put in ~/Library/ScriptingAdditions" folder >> in ~/Library/ScriptingAdditions >> >> Book Add by ISBN.scpt >> --Gets the WorldCat/Library of Congress/Amazon (checks in order >> SearchOrder) entry from your ISBN and adds the book to the front >> window's database >> >> Book Add from Amazon.scpt >> --Gets the Amazon entry from your search, gives you a list of books, >> then adds the selected book to the front window's database >> >> Book Cite Fixer.scpt >> --To try to fix the cites of the selected books, run the "Book Cite >> Fixer" script on your books that have fields filled in. Entry types >> other than "book," "inbook," or "incollection" are presently ignored. >> If multiple entries are found, it will give you a list of the entries >> (up to 10 currently); after selecting an entry, it will give you a >> list of fields to fill in. Note that you can use this as a way of >> searching WorldCat/Library of Congress/Amazon; open a new entry, fill >> in a couple of fields (don't forget to tab out!), then run the script >> to fill the rest of the fields. It checks in order SearchOrder. >> --To match better, it only looks in five fields. If an ISBN is found, >> it searches on the first 10 or 13 characters of the ISBN (checks for >> 13 first); otherwise, it uses title, editor, author, and year. Titles >> are restricted to the first part (before a : or ;), it uses the last >> name of the first author, and tries to get the first name of the >> editor if it exists (everything before the first comma). >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------=20= >> - >> --- >> Take Surveys. Earn Cash. 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