Re: [Bibdesk-users] ixtheo

[Christiaan H. <cmh...@gm...>]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Christiaan Hofman <cmh...@gm...>wrote:

>
> On 21 Jan 2009, at 2:12 PM, Benjamin Koppe wrote:
>
>  Hello,
>> I want to find out, if there is any chance to import from the ixtheo
>> database. The address is
>>
>> www.ixtheo.de
>>
>> They have a download function, but all you get is an rtf file. I just
>> do not find if there and a function to import the info to bibdesk.
>>
>> My target is to skip all that typing, I am not after signatures or
>> anything.
>>
>> Besides that, I would very much appreciate it if someone knew a link
>> to a good tutorial for bibdesk, because up to now I have the feeling
>> to use only a small bandwidth of what is possible...
>>
>> Thanks
>> De Benny
>>
>
> Do you know what format they give?
>
> One thing to note is that they save their reference in files with an .rtf
> extension, even though it's plain text. This is a bug, because .rtf is a
> standard extension for Rich Text Format files (perhaps you can tell them
> that, and fix it?)
>
> The tagged format looks like it uses MARC tags, but it does not contain any
> identifying characteristics (in particular a leader) for BibDesk to
> recognize it as formatted MARC. Also I don't see good identifying
> characteristics at all, which means that it would be difficult to add
> support for it.
>
> A starting point to learn about BibDesk is the Wiki and the online Help.
> It's certainly not complete though.
>
> Christiaan
>

In fact, the tags are not even MARC tags. So I've got no clue at all what it
is and how to interpret it. Their site does not seem to give any information
whatsoever.For a library I would've expected MARC, as that's the de-facto
standard for libraries around the world these days. So perhaps they could
ask them to provide some proper internationally recognized MARC or formatted
MARC export?

Christiaan