Problem importing bibtex

[jem]

I've collected a number of references at ACMs Digital Library and now want to have these references in Bookends. I download them as a bibtex references and then import into Bookends which results in 147 references ... which is 52 references less than it should be.

Using BibDesk I get all 199 references. Is there some way of finding out why some of the imports fail? I couldn't find any log file/window.

I tried exporting them as EndNote XML file from BibDesk, when I try to import them I get a nil object error from Bookends.

If I use the EndNote format from ACM DL I'm able to import 176 references.

Does anyone have a suggestion for how I should import the references from ACM DL?

[jem]

I should perhaps mention that the result I get when I import the bibtex file are a bit strage. If I pick a reference at random I have a vol field that looks like this

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4(3) 51(7}, issue_date = {July 2008}, issue_description = {Web science)

and an addres field that looks like this

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New York, NY, USA}, } @issue{1364782 New York, NY, USA

In another the vol field looks like this

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4(3) 40(1}, issue_date = {March 2008) 6(5}, issue_date = {September 2008}, issue_description = {The Concurrency Problem)

the address field like this

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New York, NY, USA}, } @issue{1352322 New York, NY, USA}, } @proceeding{1352135 Portland, OR, USA}, order_no = {457080 New York, NY, USA}, } @issue{1454456 New York, NY, USA

the Publisher field like this

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ACM ACM ACM ACM

the title field like this

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Undergraduate embedded system education at Carnegie Mellon
SIGCSE '08: Proceedings of the 39th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education

etc

[Jon]

Hi,

The BibTex filter defines the end of a field when one encounters "any valid tag". I'm guessing that there are ad hoc tags in the BibTeX file that the filter doesn't have defined. Open the filter and make sure that all tags in the BibTeX file are entered (if you don't want to import them, put them in the "Ignored" slot).

Jon
Sonny Software

[jem]

OK, I'll play around and see what I can do