Importing records with authors formatted as "First M. L

jzacks · Post by **jzacks** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 3:45 pm

Hi,

I am trying to switch over from EndNote. I exported my EndNote database as XML and imported it into Bookends. It worked surprisingly well, except that names formatted as "First M. Last" retain that order on import. This works fine in EndNote, but I see from the Bookends documentation, and from testing, that this is a bad thing in Bookends.

I see that the import filters allow one to try to parse names on input, but the EndNote XML import filters don't appear to be editable.

Is there a way to modify the EndNote 8 import filter to handle this, or is there a way to reparse names after import?

Thanks,

Jeff Zacks

Post by **Jon** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 3:52 pm

I think I'm going to have Bookends reorder names automatically on XML import. And we may add a "standardize names" feature on records already in Bookends as well. I don't think these can make it in 8.0.4, but perhaps the update after that...

Jon
Sonny Software

jzacks · Post by **jzacks** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 8:14 pm

Hi Jon,

That seems like a good idea. In the meantime, is there any way to clean up a large number of names? This database has > 2000 entries, so doing it by hand is not an option. The misformatted authors pretty much make Bookends unusable for me, because when I format a bibliography (in APA style) it garbles the citations for "First M. Last" names.

Jeff

Post by **Jon** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 10:37 pm

Bookends should try to deal with names in surname-last entries now. Please contact me directly if it does not.

As for conversion to surname-first on import, that is a feature I think we will implement. You cannot do it now.

Jon
Sonny Software