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Tag bibliographies with names from species classification (or arbitrary vocabularies) on batch upload #2144

Closed informatics-dev closed 13 years ago

informatics-dev commented 13 years ago

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Hi again!

I am about to batch upload 170 bibliographic references relevant to location and specimen data to my scratchpad. I would like to tag these bibliographies with species names from my classification vocabulary/taxonomy. This tagging can not be done by autotagging (i.e. the species names are not guaranteed to be found in the title of the journal).

I will generate a RIS file from a large tab-delimited bibliography. Can any of the RIS fields be used to automatically tag the bibliographic reference with a species name? A bibliographical reference may have 1 to 50 or so species names associated with it.

I am using my own Perl script to generate the RIS file, meaning that I can use any RIS field (such as KW - ...) to specify the species. So if not already possible, a temporary "hacky" modification to the RIS parser on the server that maps one of the RIS fields to the Classification vocabulary would be fine by me, but I guess not with you guys :-D

informatics-dev commented 13 years ago

Comment by Irina Brake

I will leave the answer to this one to Simon. Just want to mention Stephan's blog at http://scratchpads.eu/instructions-importing-bibliography-scratchpad-using-ris-format about importing RIS. However, the blog was a year ago, so maybe it is not relevant any more. I am not aware of anyone having tried RIS import since then.

informatics-dev commented 13 years ago

Comment by Andreas Wallberg

Hi again!

Finally something I can answer on my own. Turns out it is possible by usign the "KW - " field in the RIS format and checking:

"Use keywords from biblio entries as taxonomy "free tags"" in admin/settings/biblio

However, it seems from the note "This option allows user to add keywords (free tags) to describe their documents. These keywords will be registered as taxonomy." that this not only reads from the taxonomy but also writes to it so check the keywords carefully first. Also remember to use this only temporarily, unless you want this feature for all subsequent additions of keywords (which may not be species names).

informatics-dev commented 13 years ago

Comment by Simon Rycroft

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.