Re: [Refdb-users] adding reference failure

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

On Tuesday, September 23, 2003, at 05:44  PM, Markus Hoenicka wrote:

> Bruce D'Arcus writes:
>> But isn't there something like an abbreviated title field?  If yes, I
>> was wondering if it made sense to have the title minus the subtitle =
in
>> that field.  Maybe better than nothing?
>
> There ain't. Unfortunately. As I'm currently fiddling with the
> database schema anyway, I *could* add an abbrev title field and a
> subtitle field, but they would be useless for RIS data (and hence, for
> the web interface as it is). risx would need to be amended to support
> this.

I think you should, because you'll need to at some point anyway. =20
Consider that those styles that make a distinction between first and=20
subsequent citations almost always use abbreviated titles for the=20
latter (can you imagine not doing so with the title example I posted=20
the other day?).

Does the current version of RefMan really not support an abbreviated=20
title field?  If yes, that surprises me.

Before you contemplate if and how to add this, I'd take a look at how=20
MODS handles titles to make sure you cover it all.  IIRC, they also=20
have an attribute for "uniform" titles, which AFAIK is simply the full=20=

title.  So you can have:

<titleInfo type=3D"uniform">
	<title>A Full Title: With Subtitle</title>
<titleInfo>

or...

<titleInfo type=3D"abbreviated">=A0
	<title>Annu. rep. notif. dis.</title>
</titleInfo>

Bruce=