Re: Survey: most wanted features in a web interface

Hi,

Quoting [email protected]:

> My greatest worry is simple batch entry of bibliographic data for
> people totally ignorant of RefDB and its functioning. For this the
> following would be highly desirable:
>
> - server-side conversion of the most important bib data formats (so
>   people can directly upload their BibTeX files),
>

This is currently implemented for ISI files (besides the native  
formats RIS and risx), but the same trick should work for all other  
data formats that we have converters for. If you include bibutils, we  
could import quite a few this way, including BibTeX. I'll look into  
this.

> - after import, display of the imported bib data in editable forms so
>   the user sees what the import procedure made of it, and can directly
>   make corrections.
>

Currently there are two different ways to handle this. If you add or  
edit a single dataset using the web form, the resulting dataset is  
displayed in RIS format (but before it is sent to refdbd, so this  
might require a change) along with a link to the dataset. If you  
upload data from a local file, you may have several entries per file.  
Therefore the web interface displays a list of the added datasets with  
links pointing to these entries. In all cases, following the link will  
allow you to edit them. The upcoming screenshots will probably make  
this procedure a little clearer. I'm open to suggestions on how to  
improve on this.

regards,
Markus

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Markus Hoenicka
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http://www.mhoenicka.de


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