Comment 2 for bug 304668

On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 06:28:25 -0000, John Pye wrote:

> A number of online journals provide citations in .RIS format for easy
> download to bibliograpy software. Jabref is able to read these files,
> but in Ubuntu, there is no mime-type or file association to allow the
> web-browser to direct this file to the Jabref application for handling.
> Could a binding to the the .RIS file format possibly be added in the
> Ubuntu packaging of Jabref?

Hi John,

I'm the maintainer of JabRef in Debian.

Thanks for your idea.

Adding a file association would be no problem (after checking if
there are others and dealing with the funny formatting); I'm just not
sure if this is really a good idea:
I just tried it with your example, and it works (despite an error on
the console). But what happens is that the .ris file is opened on
it's own / in a new empty database. That doesn't seem too helpful to
me; my assumption is that usually you would want to open (one of your)
normal databases(s) and then import the downloaded .ris file there.

What's your opinion on this question?

-- 2nd mail --

> Example URL to test:
> http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v445/n7123/full/445014a.html
> (see 'export citation' link at right)
> (possibly this page is not accessible if you are not within a
> university that has a Nature subscription).

Thanks for the example,
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v445/n7123/ris/445014a.ris works
fine without subscription.

Cheers,
gregor

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