It is difficult to understand what the goal should be. Regardless of what the
people do, to merge the various records into a single, usable bib file means
having to assign new cite keys to avoid duplicate cite keys. BibDesk helps you
in this by highlighting the records, which have duplicates and helps you in
finding/selecting the culprits. Then a manual fixing of the duplicate cite keys
is most likely unavoidable and asking the people who have contributed the
records to fix the problem in their data bases as well to support smooth
collaboration in the future.
If the issue is another one, e.g. redundant records that are not identical and
use different cite keys, again BibDesk helps you there to find those and to
possibly weed out redundant records (Menu command "Database -> Select
Duplicates").
If the issue should be multiple bib files with possible redundancies, I suggest
to merge them all into one bib file and then resolve the issues I understood
might be present as described above.
Perhaps I misunderstood, which means, I guess, you have to explain better what
your problem really is.
Regards,
Andreas
ETH Zurich
Prof. Dr. Andreas Fischlin
Systems Ecology - Institute of Integrative Biology
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On 19/Jan/2011, at 02:15 , Uli Wienands wrote:
> Dear List,
>
> I am new to Bibdesk, but not new to LaTeX & friends.
>
> In my present project (editing parts of a design report with multiple
> authors giving me LaTeX sources of their contributions) I have the
> following issue:
>
> We have a number of citations. Some authors have several documents
> listed under one citation key.
>
> E.g.
>
> \bibitem[ref:key1] {A. Author, Title, Journal etc... and\\
> B.Author, Title, Journal etc..}
>
> (There are variations to this theme like lab reports bearing the
> number of several labs [don't ask; in physics all sorts of things
> happen..)
>
> While I can handle these in "manual" bibliographies (\bibliography
> {99} ... \end{bibliography}) I am not sure how to put these in to
> BibTeX and, by extension, BibDesk. The multiple report numbers I
> think I can do using the Note field, but for the true multiple
> documents I do not know a good way. I suppose the Note would work
> here as well, with manually formatting things, but maybe someone has
> a smarter idea?
>
> Because I am editor, not author of the contributions I cannot make
> too drastic changes (so I can't tell my people not to do this). Also,
> I am not getting .bib files but the bibliographies are in the
> contribs. This is SOP in my area of work & not easily changed.
>
> While I am at it; is there a way to add fields to the BibDesk records
> "en masse" i.e. by selecting multiple records? Sort-of like in iTunes
> where I can select multiple tracks and then add the composer in one
> operation.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Uli
>
>
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