M1 in the RIS format

Saganaki

I am working on importing a large database from Reference Manager into Zotero. Since some of the RefMan fields are not supported in Zotero I want to send the information into 'extra' (e.g. RP for reprint status). Thus I have replaced RP, U1, U2; U3 to M1 in the RIS text file.
This works fine for all categories besides book chapter. Here the M1 is put into # of volumes (my translation from German).
I tried to find a mapping description for the RIS import into Zotero. Which RIS field in which categorie is imported to which Zotero field. That would be a big help. If this is not available can please somebody let me know which RIS field in the CHAP category is imported into teh Extra-category of Zotero?
Best
Stefan

adamsmith

While generally we follow this quite closely:
https://github.com/aurimasv/translators/wiki/RIS-Tag-Map-(narrow)
the M1 to # of volumes mapping (as a fallback category) is a hack to accommodate Endnote's behavior.

M1 will also map to access date for webpages as a fallback.

M2 is consistently mapped to extra.

gilgil

Hi Saganaki,

how many entry's does your Database have? How did you import it - my import of about 18.000 entrys via RIS always ends with an error.

gil

dstillman

gilgil: That has nothing to do with this thread. Start a new one, and provide more info.

adamsmith

actually, there is a very high change it's this problem:
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/29820/problem-importing-endnote-refman-ris-files-without-pdfs/#Item_6
so follow up in that thread if you're seeing the same problem described there.
If you're getting an actual error, start a new thread and provide the info requested by Dan.