Re: bib2ris INPROCEEDINGS

Am Monday, 30. October 2006 22:22 schrieb Markus Hoenicka:
> Hi,
>
> there is no such reason except my ignorance. I've been struggling
> quite a bit with the bibtex to RIS mapping, and it is very well
> possible that I didn't get some things right yet.
>
> bibtex uses both PROCEEDINGS and INPROCEEDINGS. I figured the former
> describes a whole tome of papers presented at some meeting, similar to
> a book.

I agree on this

> The latter would then be a chapter (or an article?) that 
> appeared in such a tome. 

To me it is more an article than a chapter. But maybe, others have a different 
opinion? So I will change the settings in bib2risrc. 

> I'm still not sure what the RIS type CONF is 
> supposed to cover. If it is meant to describe the "book", then the
> current mapping is ok. If CONF is meant to describe a chapter, then
> INPROCEEDINGS should rather map to CONF, and PROCEEDINGS maybe to
> BOOK.

As I'm not really familiar with the RIS types, maybe somebody could clarify 
this point.

Regeards
Dominik
>
> As I'm not an active bibtex user, I'm open to suggestions how to
> improve the default mapping. In any case, if you don't like the
> default mapping, you can customize it in
> /usr/local/etc/refdb/bib2risrc.
>
> regards
> Markus
>
> Dominik Reusser writes:
>  > If converting conference proceeding entries from bibtex (INPROCEEDINGS)
>  > to ris, the type is set to
>  > TY  - CHAP
>  > is there a reason for not setting it to
>  > TY - CONF

-- 
Dominik Reusser
Universität Potsdam

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