Re: [Refdb-users] RefDB question

[Rich S. <rsh...@ap...>]

On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Markus Hoenicka wrote:

> First of all, I'd recommend to upgrade to 0.9.4-pre1
> (http://refdb.sourceforge.net/pre/refdb-0.9.4-pre1.tar.gz) which fixes
> a couple of bugs still present in 0.9.3.

Markus,

  I'll do that, thank you very much.

> The tags listed are indeed the only ones supported right now. They
> essentially cover whatever RefMan offers.

  I thought that was the case, but I needed to confirm it.

> RefDB currently treats RPRT entries like books. I was just guessing so
> this may be all wrong. Therefore it would not be a good choice for
> circulars. I'd rather use JOUR instead and use JF as the name of the
> circular.

  OK. I don't care what it is as long as it works with your system.

Here are a couple of examples of the type of entries I need to make:

TY  - RPRT
AV  - 113
AU  - Altman,B.
AU  - Henson,C.M.
AU  - Waite,I.R.
PY  - 1997///
TI  - Summary of information on aquatic biota and their habitats in the
Willamette Basin, Oregon, through 1995.
PB  - USGS
JF  - Water Resources Investigations Report 97-4023.
EP  - 174
KW  - aquatic
KW  - biota
KW  - habitats
KW  - willamette
ER  -

  (I'll change this to type JOUR). Otherwise, is this appropriate? I'll also
change EP to SP, or I can use SP  - 1 and EP  - 174.

TY  - NEWS
AV  - 114
PB  - U.S. Department of the Interior.
PY  - 2000///
TI  - NEPA Revised Implementing Procedures; Notice.
JO  - Fed. Reg. Aug. 28, 2000
IS  - 167
SP  - 52211
EP  - 52241
KW  - NEPA
KW  - EIA
KW  - regulations
ER  -

   The "AV" tag is a sequential number. I put everything (but regular books)
in shelf boxes and they're numbered as I process them with no regard for
topics or anything else.

> This would screw up things. You can use SP without EP, but not the other
> way round. Using SP for the total number is probably as close as you can
> get.

  OK. Works for me. :-)

Rich

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