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There is a discussion on this topic right now in the Digital Commons Google Group, fyi. On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Sam Kome <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > At some point bring it back to the list, please. Enquiring minds want to > know... > > Thanks, > > SK > > -----Original Message----- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of > Roy Tennant > Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2012 10:44 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Citation manager --> ??? --> BePress Bulk-upload > Excel spreadsheet > > Mita, > A while back (I mean at least six years ago) I wrote some code to take > citations downloaded from an index provider, reformat them into bepress > spreadsheet format, and bulk upload them. The purpose of the project was to > identify published articles by University of California faculty, email them > that we had citations of their work in our system, and wouldn't they like > to upload their copy of their article into the repository? I don't have the > numbers on that project, but I recall that it did boost submissions. > > Unfortunately, I think the code, which was likely crappy anyway, has long > since moldered to dust on a server somewhere that I no longer have access > to, but I can put you in touch with someone at UC who might be doing > something like this. I'll email you off-list. > Roy > > On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Mita Williams <[log in to unmask] > >wrote: > > > We're trying to figure out a workflow for our BePress IR and was > > curious if anyone in code4libland has developed "something" (an Excel > > macro? a Zotero export function?) that could take formatted citations > > and put them in the proper order so they could be bulk added to the > > BePress bulk upload Excel spreadsheet. Or perhaps there's an > > altogether different way of going about collecting, formatting, and > adding such things for BePress. > > > > Everything counts in large amounts. > > Mita > > >