I've found that it's far much easier/quicker for me to look for duplicates if I export all my references in the biblioscape TAG format, process then with a perl script and import them back into biblioscape. (This only takes me a few hours instead of days using the check duplicate function!) However, if I do that, I have to manually move them back into appropriate folders.
Now it's great that in 7.x the references can only be in one folder. So can I also export/import the folder name/id in as one of the tags in the biblioscape TAG format? so that when I import back the reference, they will all in the correct folders?
thanks
win
You can not import records
You can not import records once and make records go to different folders. Imported records can only go to the folder you specified during import. Instead of going through export and import, how about let me know what you want in duplicate checking, may be we can implement it inside Biblioscape. That will save you a lot of export import work. Thanks.
Some suggestions for duplicate checking
I think there are several things you can improve the duplicate checking.
(1) you mark only the duplicates but keep one oldest record, which is unmarked. It'll be good if you can also mark that record with some other symbol so I can pull them together and decide if the right version of the record is kept. At the moment, I can only do it manually by going through all my records which takes a lot of time.
(2) can we perform the duplicate checking in a subset of records? or limit the checking within specific folders? Given the choice, I would prefer not to do duplicate checking for the whole database every single time because when this is on, adobe reader crash and cannot be open until biblioscape is off.
(3) putting biblioscape in the background while it is doing duplicate checking, or give us a way to exit biblioscape gracefully will be great too.
(4) Instead of just a choice between exact match and fuzzy match, may be you can include more specific options. For example, the user can specify whether to include/exclude certain symbols and characters; whether we want a case sensitive check; or counting the numbers of matched words in the title so a mismatch of say less than x words can be count as identical. Or may be a combinations of the above, e.g. exact match in Year but allow a single mismatched word in Title.
All these can be easily done in Perl with regular expression.