[Refdb-users] Parsing error ? with addref

[Daniel O'D. <dan...@ul...>]

I'm getting what looks like an error produced with addref or getref:

I'm importing about 2900 references using addref. If I then output to
ris, I'm finding that keywords seem to be mixed up a little. What seems
to be happening is that short (one character or word) and unique (one
occurrence in the original data) keywords are showing up randomly and
repeatedly assigned to other entries. These other entries still keep
their original keywords.

Here's an example:

1) Original RIS


> TY  - JOUR
> A1  - Abraham, Lenore
> T1  - Cædmon's Hymn and the Geþwærnysse (fitness) of things
> JO  - ABR
> JF  - American Benedictine Review
> Y1  - 1992///
> VL  - 43
> SP  - 331
> EP  - 44
> N2  - folder. 27-ii-01: notes in folder
> N1  - <Fairly long note removed/>
> AV  - Kakelbont Article Abraham1992
> KW  - chapter 6
> KW  - chapter 1
> KW  - Dawn
> KW  - chapter 6
> KW  - chapter 1
> KW  - Dawn
> KW  - caedmon's Hymn
> KW  - structure
> KW  - literary criticism
> KW  - bede
> KW  - Historia ecclesiastia
> KW  - internal criticism
> ER  - 

Here's what is coming out the other end:


> refdbc: getref -d refdbib -t ris :AU:~^Abraham
> 
> TY  - JOUR
> ID  - ABRAHAM1992
> AU  - Abraham,Lenore
> TI  - Cædmon's Hymn and the Geþwærnysse (fitness) of things
> JF  - American Benedictine Review
> JO  - ABR.
> KW  - chapter 6
> KW  - chapter 1
> KW  - Dawn
> KW  - chapter 6
> KW  - chapter 1
> KW  - Dawn
> KW  - caedmon's Hymn
> KW  - structure
> KW  - literary criticism
> KW  - bede
> KW  - Historia ecclesiastia
> KW  - internal criticism
> KW  - Cædmon's Hymn
> KW  - l
> KW  - m
> KW  - o
> KW  - ld
> KW  - h
> KW  - æ
> KW  - Cædmon
> VL  - 43
> SP  - 331
> EP  - 44
> N2  - folder. 27-ii-01: notes in folder
> RP  - NOT IN FILE
> AV  - Kakelbont Article Abraham1992
> N1  - <fairly long note/>
> PY  - 1992///
> ER  -
> 999:1 retrieved:0 failed
> refdbc:
> 

The problem is the following keyword section

KW  - l
> KW  - m
> KW  - o
> KW  - ld
> KW  - h
> KW  - æ
> KW  - Cædmon

These are all unique keywords drawn from other entries in the original
RIS file. They show up multiple times in the refdb generated ris files.

The presence or absence of N2 doesn't affect anything. I don't know if
the long note does, though the same problem occurs with entries that
have no notes. A random selection of these extra keywords seems to be
attached to every entry in the output RIS.

-d


-- 
Daniel Paul O'Donnell
Associate Professor and Chair of English
Director, Digital Medievalist Project
<http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/>
University of Lethbridge
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Canada

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