[open-bibliography] Basic RDF/XML to bibtex/RIS conversion?

Fri Feb 3 15:07:16 UTC 2012

On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Tom Morris <tfmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Ross Mounce <ross.mounce at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> the scripts I wrote that parse the BNB files and spit out the bibjson
>>
>> yes, I think that sounds like something that would be useful. Although
>> I may have to ask the same type of question again:
>>
>> How to get from bibjson -> bibtex  (or RIS)
>
> Google Refine's templated exporter could probably get you from BibJSON
> to RIS pretty easily (not sure about BibTex's LaTeX encoding of
> multinational characters).

Yeah, refine might be a good option, or some scripts from Jim.

> Having said that, surely Gephi doesn't take either of these as a
> native import format.  Don't you just want clusters of authors (and
> other associated metadata) in some tractable format?

Having had a very cursory look at the front page of gephi, I imagine
this to be the case; why would a vis tool care about bibtex? If so,
you could probably just pull these sorts of lists directly out of the
bibjson.

Mark