[WEB4LIB] Importing FirstSearch/WorldCat records into Procite?

[Dale Askey]

On 10 Dec 99, at 11:15, Darryl Friesen wrote:

> We have a trial access to FirstSearch, and I had a question about doing this
> from one of our profs.  What's the easiest method to do this?  There doesn't
> seem to be a FirstSearch or WorldCat import filter (or whatever they're
> called) for Procite/BiblioLink.  Has someone written one?  Will any of the
> others supplied with Procite do the job?

To my knowledge, such a filter (actually called a config or .cfg file in 
ProCite) does not exist. The problem is that FirstSearch has no 
mechanism to export records as tagged fields. I tried to modify an 
existing ProCite config file to import FirstSearch records, but gave 
up after fruitless hours of headbanging. I've sent several emails to 
FirstSearch asking them to create an option that would export as 
tagged fields. For their databases to be considered serious research 
tools, it seems that this is something they really ought to do.

If anyone has succeeded where I failed miserably, I'd love to hear 
about it.

Best,

Dale Askey
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