[Papyrus-L] Biblioscape?

[Hugh Gunz]

Hi Dave

That's interesting to hear. I found the business of keeping track of what 
was happening to which field during the transfer pretty mind-boggling. Do 
you think that your import filter would be helpful to Katherine and others 
in her position?

Cheers
Hugh Gunz

At 12:05 2002-12-12 +0800, you wrote:
>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
>
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>
> > -----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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