RISX vs. RIS

Torsten Bronger writes:
 > The data model of my front-end is RISX.  Where can I get information
 > about how to interpret the RISX fields for the different types?
 > http://refdb.sourceforge.net/risx/index.html is of some help but it
 > is rather limited.  The most comprehensive tables can be found in
 > <http://www.referencemanager.com/support/docs/ReferenceManager11.pdf>,
 > pp 525 ff.  But this makes is necessary to map RISX to RIS.  Is
 > there information about this?
 > 

The mapping is not documented at this time except in the source
code. The tricky thing to understand is that RIS uses weird rules to
assign authors and titles to the A1-A3 and T1-T3 fields, whereas risx
attempts to use a much saner analytical=1, monographic=2, series=3
approach. The other risx elements map to RIS fields according to the
RefMan table in a fairly straightforward fashion.

I guess you're asking for an even larger table which shows the mapping
between real world items, RIS fields, and risx elements. I realize
that this information is helpful, but I won't be able to cough it up
in a matter of days.

 > By the way, RIS seems to have four titles (primary, secondary,
 > series, periodical), whereas RISX has only three of them.  In case
 > of conferences, RIS uses all four (see page 527).  How is this
 > mapped to RISX?
 > 

risx currently does not handle four titles, as I was not able to
figure out the difference between "series title" and "proceedings
title". With my limited knowledge about conference proceedings I
concluded these are the same, but I'm willing to learn.

regards,
Markus

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