[Bibdesk-users] SciFinder Import

2007-08-15 Thread Holger Frauenrath
Hello everybody, after a number of people here on this list helped me to get started with BibDesk a couple of months ago, I have been using it ever since, and I am more than happy with it. As I think it is possible that software developers more often hear complaints from users about the

[Bibdesk-users] Z39.50 at DDB/DNB (Deutsche Nationalbibliothek)

2007-08-15 Thread Hanjo Iwanowitsch
Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to import information from DDB (German Bibliography) by BibDesk's Search. For this I use the access described on http://www.d-nb.de/service/zd/ z39_50.htm. Target profile is provided on http://www.d-nb.de/eng/ service/pdf/ddb-prf2002.pdf. I filled in this

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Z39.50 at DDB/DNB (Deutsche Nationalbibliothek)

2007-08-15 Thread Christiaan Hofman
AFAICS, the encoding is no problem. We just don't get any record, and we don't use the encoding to download records, only to interpret them. Also the syntax should not be a problem, as it should be able to return USMARC according to the PDF you link to. So I don't know what goes wrong.

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Z39.50 at DDB/DNB (Deutsche Nationalbibliothek)

2007-08-15 Thread Simon Spiegel
On 15.08.2007, at 12:41, Hanjo Iwanowitsch wrote: Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to import information from DDB (German Bibliography) by BibDesk's Search. For this I use the access described on http://www.d-nb.de/service/zd/ z39_50.htm. Target profile is provided on

Re: [Bibdesk-users] Z39.50 at DDB/DNB (Deutsche Nationalbibliothek)

2007-08-15 Thread Christiaan Hofman
It seems indeed that DDB only returns SUTRS. And as in Simon's quotes from me, that unfortunately ends it. Christiaan On 15 Aug 2007, at 1:48 PM, Simon Spiegel wrote: On 15.08.2007, at 12:41, Hanjo Iwanowitsch wrote: Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to import information from DDB

Re: [Bibdesk-users] SciFinder Import

2007-08-15 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
Hello Holger, On Aug 15, 2007, at 01:30, Holger Frauenrath wrote: after a number of people here on this list helped me to get started with BibDesk a couple of months ago, I have been using it ever since, and I am more than happy with it. As I think it is possible that software developers

Re: [Bibdesk-users] SciFinder Import

2007-08-15 Thread Holger Frauenrath
Hi Adam, Thanks, that's nice to hear! It's also a good way to preface a feature request :). Shit! How did you notice? ;-) This looks like it would be really easy to parse. Christiaan, post if you start working on it; otherwise I'll take a look at it later today. No point in duplicating

Re: [Bibdesk-users] SciFinder Import

2007-08-15 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
Minimal SciFinder support will be in the next nightly build. We'll need tag and type mappings as discussed previously to make it more full-featured, but it should be a good start. -- Adam - This SF.net email is sponsored