On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Colin McCaffrey <[log in to unmask]>
helpfully wrote:
> You can now import citations from L'année philologique into Zotero like you
> would any other database that Zotero can 'translate.' The import icon should
> appear in the address bar on your browser. Alternatively, you could export
> the citation and RIS and then import that into Zotero.
I tested eight records - admittedly a very small number - and of those
eight, two imported with no trouble by use of the address bar icon. I
tried to export one of the failures to RIS and then import it, per Mr.
McCaffrey's suggestion, but Zotero returned an error message that the
selected file was not in a supported format. I opened the file with a
text editor to see whether anything was glaringly wrong with it and
noticed a blank line at the top (or, to put it another way, the first
line of the record proper was preceded by a carriage return). I
removed the line, saved the file, and the import worked perfectly.
Interestingly, when I checked the RIS export of the record for one of
the address bar icon successes, it too had a blank line at the
beginning and wouldn't import from the RIS, so the absence of a
carriage return at the beginning wasn't the key to its initial success
within Zotero.
So, my advice is to try the address bar icon first, and if that
doesn't work, export to RIS, and if *that* generates an error message,
open the file with a text editor and check for an initial blank
line/carriage return. If it's present, remove it, save the file, and
try again.
John
>> On Mar 28, 2013, at 2:32 PM, victor.gysembergh
>> <[log in to unmask]> wrote in part:
>> Does anyone know of a way to import bibliographical references from
>> "l'année philologique" into a Zotero database? ...
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