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    • CommentAuthoraoredo
    • CommentTimeJul 22nd 2008
     
    Hello All,

    Thanks for this wonderful tool.
    I am currently writing my thesis and I have been using endnote. Is there a way i can convert all my references (citations) in the word file to Zotero without reading through the whole Thesis again?

    Thanks alot, i will appreciate you help
    • CommentAuthorsean
    • CommentTimeJul 22nd 2008
     
    At the moment, no, but there are plans to add this functionality.
    • CommentAuthorbdarcus
    • CommentTimeJul 22nd 2008
     
    Although, this should be a secondary priority, given that one cannot even use a document written with Zotero with Zotero*! This is a critical weakness that I hope gets addressed soon; before you start worrying about reading Endnote fields.

    * e.g. another instance of a Zotero database
    • CommentAuthoraoredo
    • CommentTimeJul 23rd 2008
     
    Thats ok. thanks alot for your response. Is there a way i can participate in these extensions?
    • CommentAuthorTjowens
    • CommentTimeJul 24th 2008
     
    If you would like to get involved with development join the dev list. Introduce yourself, lay out your experience, and tell the other developers what you would like to work on.
    • CommentAuthorchituokol1
    • CommentTimeAug 15th 2008
     
    Here's the not-so-quick-and-dirty way that I convert an EndNote-formatted paper to Zotero:

    1. Show full fields in Word: In Word 2007, go to Office button -> Word Options -> Show document content, or Tools -> Options -> [I'm not sure which tab] in earlier versions. Select "Show field codes instead of their values." For the conversion process, I recommend also setting "Field shading" to "Always." Click OK. Now, full fields are shown throughout the document, in grey.

    2. Search the document for "EndNote." This will take you to each EndNote-formatted reference one by one, while skipping the Zotero-formatted ones. Manually replace each one with the Zotero equivalent. If you're not sure what the reference is because the expanded code is too confusing (as is almost always the case for me), just right click on the code, and select "Toggle Field Codes", and then replace with the Zotero equivalent.

    3. When you're done, build the Zotero bibliography right after the EndNote bibliography (usually at the end of the document). With the two bibliographies side by side, compare them to make sure you didn't miss converting any previous EndNote reference. You could print out the bibliographies for easier comparison.

    4. When you're satisfied that you've converted everything, then delete the EndNote bibliography, and that should be the end of EndNote in that document. Now you can go back to Word Options and unselect the "Show field codes" checkbox, and change the "Field Shading" option to "When selected" (my preferred option), or whatever you prefer.
    • CommentAuthorrhaddlesey
    • CommentTimeAug 22nd 2008
     
    big thanks cokoli but what a pain in the bum! I am half through a phd (40,000 of 80,000 words) and the thought of converting pages of an endnote bibliog to zotero is frightening, might just stick to endnote. I am a very big fan of zotero but untill this issue is addressed I can't risk swapping over which is a pain as i have already built the zotero library.
    • CommentAuthorsean
    • CommentTimeAug 22nd 2008
     
    Switching over a bibliography is easy. It's the individual citations that are problematic.
    • CommentAuthorksuling
    • CommentTimeSep 8th 2008
     
    Uhm, Ticket #686 (new enhancement; Endnote to Zotero field converter), does indeed describe this enhancement, but the suggestion there is lacking in that it requires too much user intervention.

    Here's what we need: Because in most cases a user will first convert and Endnote library to a Zotero library and then convert Word documents that used that Endnote library into docs that use Zotero citations...

    1) When converting the Endnote lib to a Zotero lib, embed in each Zotero lib record two special fields: the original Endnote lib name and the Endnote record number.

    2) When converting the document file from Endnote citations to Zotero citations, match Endnote citation record to the Endnote record number in the (converted) Zotero lib. You'll have to ensure that the user opens the correct corresponding converted library, perhaps by checking with the library name encoded in the records.

    This method may not be foolproof, but there really should be enough information to nearly fully automate the process if both library and document-citations are converted, and users can spotcheck the results.

    My transition from Endnote to Zotero cannot happen until this need is addressed, and it does not seem to be a particularly difficult problem; I have too many thousands of Endnote citations embedded in too many documents to either manually convert or toss all that old work.

    Thanks to whomever does this!
    • CommentAuthoryarko
    • CommentTimeDec 10th 2008
     
    You can use this script : http://webusers.physics.umn.edu/~yaroslav/parser/design/parser.html

    and try to convert your citations to BibTex format which is the format which Zotero uses for importing its references.
    • CommentAuthorericcompas
    • CommentTimeJul 27th 2009
     
    Any progress on this functionality in the new 2.x betas?

    Thanks,

    Eric

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