Re: Survey: most wanted features in a web interface

That looks great. I'll look at the code, but this import engine may also
greatly help the integration of the "search external databases" tab.
I'll see what I can do with it on the weekend. Unless TEI business takes
over.

On Thu, 2007-25-10 at 01:24 +0200, Markus Hoenicka wrote:
> [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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