Re: [Refdb-users] RefMan/RIS questions

[Bruce D'A. <bd...@fa...>]

On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 06:56:04 -0800, "Bruce D'Arcus" <bd...@fa...>
said:

> So, does RefMan have something equivalent, and if so, what is the
> temporary record syntax?

Ah, I found an answer at (especially starting on p253):

http://www.refman.com/support/docs/User%20Manual%20RM10.pdf

RefMan does indeed have something analogous to Endnote's sytem, but it is
also a little different. My reason for asking is some ideas I
communicated to Markus previously that relate to the next release (0.9.4)
and planned support for extended citations.  What I am proposing for
consideration is this:

Allowing for a "citation-compatability mode" feature, in which RefDB
could use the temporary citation forms of Endnote or RefMan as variant
short citation styles.  

In Endnote, I can specify that the "label" field -- which is where I
manually enter the citation key that gets exported to the RIS "ID" tag --
be used in place of the record ID.  This means I have citations like
{Jones, 1987, Jones1987a}, which would be the same as what I'd have in
RefDB, plus the additional comma-delimited author and year info.  If I
want to omit the author from the formatted citation, then I'd have {,
1987, Jones1987a}. 

I'd like to be able to use this form if possible, so that I don't have to
hassle with going through every single citation in my existing documents,
and so that I can also allow for collaboration with non-refdb users in
the future.

I'm not sure if RefMan has something like Endnote's label field and the
ability to use it in the temporary citation.  From what I can tell, it
does not, so maybe that complicates my suggestion.  Still worth
considering though...

Note: this document is also VERY useful for the RIS information, and the
field name mapping.  Download it Markus; it'll be useful if you get
around to your input DTD.  I'll also take a look to make sure my Endnote
export filter is right.  To answer my question about type, though, it
appears there is no such field, but RefMan uses the "misc 1" field to map
that info for various reference types.  Perhaps we ought to consider
something like this for RefDB, at least as suggested practice?

Bruce


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