Importing from NotaBene and Ibidem

sgreen · Post by **sgreen** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 12:12 pm

Is there anybody on this forum who have imported data from Ibidem to Bookends?. To put in other words, has anyone switch from Ibidem (PC) to Bookends, and how did you do it. I don't find any importfilter for such an operation.
Stefan Green

Post by **Jon** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 12:36 pm

Hi,

I don't know about Ibidem per se, but in general if you can export from another app in a standard interchange format (e.g. RIS, Refer, EN XML) then you can import that into Bookends. If you can create your own export formats from Ibidem, you can probably create an import filter that will handle it, too.

Jon
Sonny Software

sgreen · Post by **sgreen** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 3:56 pm

Thank you for the answer. The problem I am facing is that NB Ibidem does not seem to have an export function in the program, only import/append. That's why I am hoping to find somebody here who has taken that particular step.
Stefan

Post by **Jon** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 4:11 pm

I see that Ibidem lets you format your references into a bibliography. If it has a format (or style) for RIS, Refer, Medline, or other tagged output, that would be sufficient. You could make a "bibliography" with the tagged style and send to a text file or word processor file and import it from there (or the clipboard).

Jon
Sonny SOftware