cannot import tags from ris

fancyui

cannot import tags from ris, and cannot import the txt file exported from refworks correctly.

dstillman

You'll need to provide an example entry that fails. (RIS files are just text files that you can open up to narrow down the problem.)

fancyui

this is what i exported from refworks, the problem is that abstract will be imported into notes, and keyword cannot be imported at all. i think it is because of the abbreviations such as TY, ID; the ris file i exported from zotero use N2 for abstract, but refworks use AB, if i change AB to be N2 manually, it can be imported correctly. but for keywords or tags, they both use KW.

another question: could .ovd file be imported?

refworks:

TY  - JOUR
ID  - 33
A1  - Astini R A
A1  - Benedetto J L
A1  - Vaccari,N. E.
T1  - The early Paleozoic evolution of the Argentine Precordillera as a Laurentian 
Y1  - 1995
VL  - 107
IS  - 3
SP  - 253
EP  - 273
KW  - allochthons
KW  - Andes
KW  - Argentina
KW  - Arthropoda
KW  - bibliography
KW  - biogeography
KW  - biostratigraphy
KW  - Brachiopoda
KW  - Conodonta
KW  - continental drift
KW  - geodynamics
KW  - Gondwana
KW  - Invertebrata
KW  - Laurentia
KW  - lithostratigraphy
KW  - lower Paleozoic
KW  - microfossils
KW  - paleogeography
KW  - Paleozoic
KW  - plate collision
KW  - plate tectonics
KW  - Precordillera
KW  - regression
KW  - review
KW  - rifting
KW  - sea level changes
KW  - sedimentation
KW  - South America
KW  - tectonics
KW  - terranes
KW  - transgression
KW  - Trilobita
KW  - Trilobitomorpha
KW  - 18 Solid earth geophysics
KW  - 12 Stratigraphy
KW  - 16 Structural geology
AB  - Paleontologic and stratigraphic evidence (abstract)
N1  - RF: GeoRef, Copyright 2002, American Geological Institute. Reference includes 
PB  - Geological Society of America (GSA)
CY  - Boulder, CO, United States
SN  - 0016-7606
AD  - Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Catedra de Estratigrafia y Geologia Historica,
JF  - Geological Society of America Bulletin
M1  - Journal Article
ER  - 

ovd format:

VN  - Ovid Technologies
DB  - Downloaded from SilverPlatter
AB  - The marine-clastic Ordovician strata 
UI  - 2008-119017
AU  - Moya-Maria-Cristina
PT  - Serial; Conference-Document
IS  - 1514-4186
JN  - Serie Correlacion Geologica
LG  - English
PG  - 281-293
SH  - Andes-; Argentina-; 
TI  - The Ordovician basin of northern Argentina.
UP  - 200846
VO  - 16
PY  - 2002

dstillman

RefWorks is wrong according to the RIS spec, which says (inexplicably, to be fair) that AB is a note and N2 is an abstract. But it's probably worth checking whether EndNote, other bibliographic programs, and RIS-generating websites ever actually use AB for a note rather than an abstract, since if they don't we could probably change the RIS translator to import AB as an abstract.

The keywords are importing fine for me. You might want to run Reset Translators and Styles from the Advanced pane of the Zotero prefs to make sure you have the latest RIS translator available for 1.0.7. (A new version will be available with 1.0.8, but the previous version should work.)

SimonCropper

Hi, I have just imported a 10,000 reference Endnote database into Zotero and played around with all sorts of 'RIS Tag : Zotero Field' combinations. In the end I avoided the use of the KW tag. My Endnote export style looks like this...


`TY - `GEN|`
AU - `Author|`
PY - `Year|`
BT - `Secondary Title|`
ED - `Secondary Author|`
CT - `Title|`
CY - `Place Published|`
PB - `Publisher|`
T3 - `Tertiary Title|`
A3 - `Series Editor|`
ET - `Edition|`
SP - `Pages|`
Y2 - `Date|`
SN - `ISBN/ISSN|`
N1 - `Notes|`
N1 - `Abstract|`
N1 - `Keywords|`
N2..- `Accession Number|`
VL - `Volume|`
UR - `URL

`TY - `JOUR|`
AU - `Author|`
PY - `Year|`
TI - `Title|`
SP - `Pages|`
JF - `Journal|`
VL - `Volume|`
IS - `Issue|`
N1 - `Notes|`
N1 - `Abstract|`
N1 - `Keywords|`
N2 - `Location|: Accession Number|`
UR - `URL

`TY - `BOOK|`
AU - `Author|`
PY - `Year|`
BT - `Title|`
CY - `City|`
PB - `Publisher|`
SP - `Number of Pages|`
T3 - `Series Title|`
ED - `Series Editor|`
ET - `Edition|`
VL - `Volume|`
Y2 - `Original Publication|`
SN - `ISBN|`
N1 - `Notes|`
N1 - `Notes|`
N1 - `Keywords|`
N2 - `Location|: Accession Number|`
VL - `Volume|`
UR - `URL

`TY - `CHAP|`
AU - `Author|`
PY - `Year|`
BT - `Book Title|`
ED - `Editor|`
CT - `Title|`
CY - `City|`
PB - `Publisher|`
ET - `Edition|`
VL - `Volume|`
T3 - `Series Title|`
SP - `Pages|`
N1 - `Notes|`
N1 - `Notes|`
N1 - `Keywords|`
N2 - `Location|: Accession Number|`
VL - `Volume|`
SN - `ISBN|`
UR - `URL


Although my abstract goes to notes I find this better as lengthy abstracts do not chew up screen space available to show the essential reference fields in Zotero. I used the abstract field to store the location I store the physical copy of the reference and its accession code.

Keywords are stored as a list in the notes section. I did not find the global import of 1000 of keywords into the tags section really worked how I liked. As a note, I can still find my references easily using the search function. To date, I have not started Tagging References, but have found the ability to group like references into collections very useful.

dstillman

Although my abstract goes to notes I find this better as lengthy abstracts do not chew up screen space available to show the essential reference fields in Zotero.

You can shrink the Abstract field to one line by clicking on the label.