[Papyrus-L] Biblioscape?

[Bicknell, David]

Dear Hugh and Katherine

I changed over a few months ago, and did have some of the problems you
mentioned, but the biggest problem was getting the export (from Papyrus) and
import (to Biblioscape) format fields the same.

It would be easier if I had found a full export from Papyrus, rather than
the partial set that Papyrus and Biblioscape recommends (Ref Manager). On
the other hand, I had great fun adapting the Biblioscape import filter: It
was very easy and worked well. The main problems were that the start and
finish page numbers ended up in the same field in Biblioscape (not a
disaster), and some of the abstract and comments fields ended in the same
Biblioscape field and were duplicated (don't know how that happened, but no
real disaster).

I am very pleased with the adaptability of Biblioscape compared to Papyrus,
but Papyrus is still the best for giving warnings on entries, and the rigour
of the data.

Regards
Dave B

David Bicknell
Agricultural Resource Management Information and Communication
Narrogin Department of Agriculture
Ph 08 9881 0222: Fax 08 9881 1950: Mobile 0417 900 284
http://www.agric.wa.gov.au/environment/


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Hugh Gunz [SMTP:hugh.gunz at utoronto.ca]
> Sent:	Thursday, 12 December 2002 11:38 AM
> To:	papyrus-l at ResearchSoftwareDesign.com
> Subject:	Re: [Papyrus-L] biblioscape?
> 
> Katherine -- I'm not sure why you're having this trouble, but given that
> it 
> sounds as if it's at the Biblioscape end (to do with the Biblioscape Ref 
> Manager import filters), why don't you e-mail Paul Chen at 
> <support at biblioscape.com> and ask him? He's extremely responsive and 
> helpful. I doubt very much that it's anything to do with the version of 
> Biblioscape you're using, given that I don't think anything's been done to
> 
> the filters.
> 
> Hugh Gunz
> 
> At 22:04 2002-12-11 -0500, you wrote:
> >I am reluctantly exploring alternatives to Papyrus and considering
> >Biblioscape. So far I have not been able to export my Papyrus
> bibliography
> >successfully using the instructions on the website, even after
> >correspondence with Paul.  I also downloaded the Evans-Gunz macros.
> >Basically the Ref Manager format 6,7 doesn't work right (messes up the
> >ending page number and the abstract) nor does the 8,9 format (messes up
> the
> >ending page number and the journal title). I wonder if this is because I
> am
> >using a relatively new version of Biblioscape. Does anyone else have
> recent
> >experience with this conversion?
> >
> >Thanks for any help.
> >
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