Re: Survey: most wanted features in a web interface

[email protected] writes:
 > 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),
 > 

I've extended the "Upload from file" dialog accordingly. The PHP
interface now determines at runtime which converters are available,
and displays a list of these supported formats. This includes those
formats that require bibutils. I've posted an updated screenshot at

http://refdb.sourceforge.net/preview/php-add-file.png

A few minor problems remain to be solved. E.g. we can't auto-detect
the tagged EndNote RIS export as it resembles "real" RIS but has a
couple of bugs which are not necessarily detectable in each
dataset. It will be imported as RIS, warts and all. Also, I haven't
found the header structure of binary UKMARC datasets to see whether we
can tell them apart from the other MARC variants (if anyone uses this
format at all, that is). Finally, I'd like to see a sample of
EndNote's XML export, if someone has one handy. I'd like to see how to
auto-detect this format.

regards,
Markus

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Markus Hoenicka
[email protected]
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http://www.mhoenicka.de


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