Exporting Abstract to Plaintext

flautabaja
Hi,

I have a collection of 1,926 files most of them have abstracts from PubMed. I want to build corpus to analyze some biological research.

My goal is to have a plaintext file for each abstract. I do not need any other data from myfile.bib. The name of the plaintext file can be anything simple.

Can someone help me out by pointing me to where I can find a template, marco, or other mechanism to run this export.

Thanks!!!
  • adamsmith
    to understand that correctly, this is all in Zotero or not?
    If they are indeed in .bib format, I'd expect that you'd be faster doing this in bibtex/LaTex than with Zotero.
    But if you want to or have them imported in Zotero,
    you can go here
    http://gist.github.com/472496
    download the csl file by right-clicking on "Raw" on the top right and then install the downloaded abstract.csl by dragging it to any open FF window.

    You can than select your entire library in Zotero, right click, create bibliography, select the style called abstract, copy to clipboard and then paste into a text file - I don't know if this handles such a large number of files well, you might have to do this in 4 chunks.
  • flautabaja
    Greetings Adam!

    This looks like it might be helpful!

    But when I dragged the abstract.csl.xml I got the following error:

    XML Parsing Error: mismatched tag. Expected: </bibliography>.
    Location: file:///Users/Nat/Downloads/abstract.csl.xml
    Line Number 21, Column 7:

    I really appreciate your help

    Nat
  • adamsmith
    oops sorry, try again - also the file shouldn't have .xml at the end - just .csl -
    read my instructions above carefully (although that's not the reason for the error you got).
  • flautabaja
    Great many thanks! It worked!!!
  • flautabaja
    Hi I am trying to modify a CSL that would output keywords from my library in Zotero.
    I tried to swap "abstract" with "keyword" in the CSL still you wrote for me.
    Also, I renamed the style. But it does not seem to output anything when I try to use
    the new CSL style I made.

    Suggestions? Thanks!!
  • noksagt
    Have you validated your style?
  • RintzeRintze
    I don't think that works (yet):

    http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/8243/keyword-tags-in-style/?Focus=37235#Comment_37235
  • flautabaja
    Another recommendations for downloading a .bib file with just keywords, titles, an authors?

    thanks
  • noksagt
    Modify the BibTeX translator. Or use a post-processor to strip out the fields from the BibTeX that Zotero generates.

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