Re: RISX vs. RIS

Hallöchen!

Markus Hoenicka writes:

> [...]
>
> 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 think I can cope with RISX' semantics quite well now.  I just want
to grey out some fields sometimes and rename them (e.g. "article
title" -- "journal title" for journal articles).  I think this helps
my collegues a lot because analytical vs. monographic must be learnt
by them first.  For this renaming, the tables in the RIS
specification were helpful.

What's missing is "edition" in RISX.  One can use the "otherinfo"
for the publishing date but this doesn't survive in BibTeX output.
If you use "edition" with RIS however, RefDB creates an "edition"
field for BibTeX.

Additionally, the explanation of "city" should be expanded to
"publication place" and not just the name of a town.  In case of
patents, for example, it's the name of a country.  (The tag name may
stay, however.)

Tschö,
Torsten.

-- 
Torsten Bronger, aquisgrana, europa vetus
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