Investigate: do we need a list of tags?

rafguns commented 2 years ago

This is a side-track related to #5. We maintain a list of all tags used in WoS export files, along with some extra information. Do we really need that?

In addition to the two-letter field code, we have:

a full label: obviously useful but currently not really used in the rest of the code
a boolean indicating if the field is splittable, i.e. if it consist of multiple parts, used here: https://github.com/rafguns/wosfile/blob/64947c20c6378e021a3208fd6e4622b11d39cc28/wosfile/record.py#L40
a boolean indicating (for splittable fields only?) if the WoS plain text format puts each item on a separate line or not, used here: https://github.com/rafguns/wosfile/blob/64947c20c6378e021a3208fd6e4622b11d39cc28/wosfile/read.py#L214

While I would keep the current list (and try to keep it updated), it seems like we can find sensible defaults for both booleans, to handle unknown tags/fields.

rafguns commented 2 years ago

In the absence of more information, we could just default to False for both is_splittable and has_item_per_line.

rafguns commented 1 year ago

Related: https://webofscience.help.clarivate.com/en-us/Content/export-records.htm seems to have a more exhaustive list of tags.

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Investigate: do we need a list of tags? #14