Re: [Bibdesk-develop] Re: [Bibdesk-users] JSTOR Importing

[Adam M. <ama...@ma...>]

 
On Thursday, January 19, 2006, at 03:47PM, Christiaan Hofman <chr...@we...> wrote:

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>On 19 Jan 2006, at 7:48 PM, Adam Maxwell wrote:
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>> On Thursday, January 19, 2006, at 09:15AM, Christiaan Hofman  
>> <chr...@we...> wrote:
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>>> In the next nightly you will be able to import JSTOR data in a BibTeX
>>> file by dropping a text file with JSTOR references on the main table,
>>> or using copy/paste of the data in the text file.
>>
>> Cool!  Is there a way to make it not rely on the long "-----"  
>> string, or is that part of the spec that James pointed to?
>>
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>It's part of the specs.

Bizarre.  At least they're machine-generated.

>> Also, what do you think of checking the type of files dropped on  
>> the main window and adding the references, rather than adding the  
>> files as attachments?  If I drop a bib file on the window now, I  
>> get a new publication with that file attached to it; same holds  
>> true for other types.
>>
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>I agree that it is more expected to load the content for such files.

I think we have an RFE for that somewhere as well.  It would be a handy way of adding content quickly.

>>> Is there a default extension for JSTOR files? then we could try to
>>> recognize those and be able to open them.
>>
>> Or just register for any type as TextEdit does, which would allow  
>> drag-and-drop on the Dock icon.
>>
>> Adam
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>The point is about opening a file. The document has to choose a file  
>type, which if not set by the system depends on the extension. For  
>"any type" we don't know which content type to choose. Or should we  
>use our sniffing methods? AFAIK JSTOR has not chosen a file type  
>extension, we could of course choose one ourselves (like .jstor).

For "any type" I was thinking we'd have to sniff the content, if no extension was provided.  We could add a .jstor extension/type/icon/UTI anyway, for completeness' sake.

Adam