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[EP-tech] Re: Possible importing BibTeX bug in monograph

Check you BibTex import plugin.  See

https://github.com/eprints/eprints/blob/3.3/perl_lib/EPrints/Plugin/Import/BibTeX.pm#L343


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On 23 Oct 2015, at 16:30, George Mamalakis wrote:

> Hi everybody,
> 
> When importing a @TECHREPORT from a BibTeX file in EPrints 3.3.14 -like 
> the one I've included for PoC in the end of this email- an eprint is 
> created that has the value technicalreport in its monograph_type 
> variable, which is wrong (it should have been "technical_report"). As 
> you can see from my export, some warnings are returned, some of which 
> referring to undefined phrases in (el), so I'm not sure if it's 
> something related to my custom multilingual configuration causing it; 
> but if so, I have no idea how it is possible, since I'm using EPrints 
> vanilla import utility.
> 
> More specifically, that's what I get:
> 
> $ ./bin/import  --verbose --user admin testpamak1 inbox BibTeX 
> /tmp/my_bibtex.txt
> "my" variable $mesg masks earlier declaration in same scope at (eval 
> 153) line 114, <DATA> line 751.
> Possible attempt to put comments in qw() list at (eval 158) line 18, 
> <DATA> line 751.
> defined(@array) is deprecated at 
> /usr/share/eprints3/lib/plugins/EPrints/Plugin/Screen/BulkAction/Remove.pm 
> line 46.
>     (Maybe you should just omit the defined()?)
> 
> Starting EPrints Repository.
> Connecting to DB ... done.
> Use of uninitialized value in subroutine entry at 
> /usr/share/eprints3/bin/../perl_lib/EPrints/MetaField/Id.pm line 50.
> Use of uninitialized value in subroutine entry at 
> /usr/share/eprints3/bin/../perl_lib/EPrints/MetaField/Id.pm line 50.
> Use of uninitialized value in subroutine entry at 
> /usr/share/eprints3/bin/../perl_lib/EPrints/MetaField/Id.pm line 50.
> Use of uninitialized value in subroutine entry at 
> /usr/share/eprints3/bin/../perl_lib/EPrints/MetaField/Id.pm line 50.
> Use of uninitialized value in subroutine entry at 
> /usr/share/eprints3/bin/../perl_lib/EPrints/MetaField/Id.pm line 50.
> Use of uninitialized value in subroutine entry at 
> /usr/share/eprints3/bin/../perl_lib/EPrints/MetaField/Id.pm line 50.
> Use of uninitialized value in subroutine entry at 
> /usr/share/eprints3/bin/../perl_lib/EPrints/MetaField/Id.pm line 50.
> Use of uninitialized value in subroutine entry at 
> /usr/share/eprints3/bin/../perl_lib/EPrints/MetaField/Id.pm line 50.
> Undefined phrase: eprint_fieldopt_monograph_type_technicalreport (el) at 
> line 126 in /usr/share/eprints3/bin/../perl_lib/EPrints/MetaField/Set.pm
> Undefined phrase: eprint_fieldopt_monograph_type_technicalreport (el) at 
> line 126 in /usr/share/eprints3/bin/../perl_lib/EPrints/MetaField/Set.pm
> Undefined phrase: eprint_fieldopt_monograph_type_technicalreport (el) at 
> line 126 in /usr/share/eprints3/bin/../perl_lib/EPrints/MetaField/Set.pm
> Undefined phrase: eprint_fieldopt_monograph_type_technicalreport (el) at 
> line 126 in /usr/share/eprints3/bin/../perl_lib/EPrints/MetaField/Set.pm
> Number of records imported: 1
> 13229
> Ending EPrints Repository.
> 
> 
> Can anyone confirm the problem in their repositories as well? If so, I 
> suppose we should file a bug report in EPrints github.
> 
> Ah, and grepping my repostitory for technicalreport returns nothing, so 
> it's probably created dynamically from BibTeX.pm...? However, looking at 
> my BibTex.pm's code (lines 340-344), the line adding this code seems 
> fine (it sets a technical_report). Could this problem be related to the 
> masking warning I get when running my import command? (and by the way, 
> how can I find which file causes this message?)
> 
> My /tmp/my_bibtex.txt content is:
> 
> @TECHREPORT{RePEc:rim:rimwps:15-19,
> title = {The Day-of-the-Week Effect is Weak: Evidence from the European 
> Real Estate Sector},
> author = {Bampinas, Georgios and Fountas, Stilianos and Panagiotidis, 
> Theodore},
> year = {2015},
> institution = {The Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis},
> type = {Working Paper Series},
> abstract = {The day-of-the-week effect for the securitized real estate 
> indices is investigated by employing daily data at the global, European 
> and country level for the period 1990 to 2010. We test for daily 
> seasonality in 12 countries using both full sample and 
> rolling-regression techniques. While the evidence for the former is in 
> line with the literature, the results for the latter cast severe doubts 
> concerning the existence of any persistent day-of-the-week effects. Once 
> we allow our sample to vary over time, the average proportion of 
> significant coefficients per day ranges between 15% and 24%. We show 
> that higher average Friday returns evident in previous literature, 
> remain significant in 21% of the rolling samples. We conclude that daily 
> seasonality in the European Real Estate sector is subject to the data 
> mining and sample selection bias criticism.},
> url = {http://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:rim:rimwps:15-19}
> }
> 
> Thanks all in advance!
> 
> George
> 
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> George Mamalakis
> 
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> Electrical and Computer Engineer (Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki),
> PhD (Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki),
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