I just got a question today from someone that uses connotea. He wants to know how to upload multiple search results from pubmed into connotea. At the moment what he is doing is the following:
- display Pubmed results in XML format
- send to tmp.txt file
- execute bibutils tools
- med2xml.exe tmp.txt > xml.txt
- xml2ris.exe xml.txt > ris.txt
- import of ris.txt into Connotea
Does anyone have a better way of doing this?
Is this something that people would like to see more support for?
Is this something that people would like to see more support for
Yes. I’ve tried something similar in the past, only using BibTeX rather than RIS. A lot of people have large, pre-existing reference collections in a multitude of formats that they would like to upload to other services, such as Connotea. The lack of facility with this and other batch operations is one factor that stops me from using it.
BTW, another way is to do your PubMed searches in JabRef or Pybliographer, save as a BibTeX database and import from there.