This function imports a large number of publications from a tagged text file (multiline records which values are prefixed by field names).

Such a file can be produced by a database or exported by most bibliographic format softwares, and eventually formatted in the purpose of its importation by WIT.

WIT analyzes the data according to rules which give high flexibility :

 WIT will recognize all fields names (and their aliases) mapped to WIT publication fields.

 A new book is created when the "Reference type" pattern (or one of its aliases) is encountered, or when a blank line is detected (if the "Blank lines end records" option is checked).

 For other lines :

• when analyzing "name:value" tagged like lines, if "name" matches with a WIT bibliographic field, "value" is stored in that field,
• if it does not match (or there's only a value), the "value" is appended in the current WIT field.

 Except for the first "Reference type" line of each record, other lines order is not important.

 The separator between tag and value is made of one or several characters (: by default). 

If you specify multiple aliases for a WIT bibliographic field, all corresponding values (if encountered while parsing) will be appended to this field, with an embedded "string separator" that you may specify (if you wish to insert a new line : type <br>, since the final code will be HTML).

The "a!=A" checkboxes indicates for each WIT field whether the tags should be analyzed in a case sentitive or insensitive manner.

For example, the information below is fully analysable :

REFERENCE TYPE:
AUTHOR: CMMI Product Development Team.
TITLE: CMMI for Systems Engineering/Software Engineering/Integrated Product and Process Development, Version 1.02 Continuous Representation (CMU/SEI-2000-TR-031, ESC-TR-2000-096).
URL: http://www.sei.cmu.edu/publications/documents/00.reports/00tr031.html
SHORT TITLE: SEI  00d
PUBLISHER: Pittsburgh, PA: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
YEAR: 2000
KEYWORDS: CMM
CMMI
TERTIARY TITLE: SR147

REFERENCE TYPE:
AUTHOR: Juran, J. M.
TITLE: Juran on Planning for Quality.
SHORT TITLE: Juran  88
PUBLISHER: New York, New York: MacMillan
YEAR: 1998
KEYWORDS: Quality
TERTIARY TITLE: SR134

REFERENCE TYPE:
AUTHOR: Federal Aviation Administration.
TITLE: Integrated Capability Maturity Model, Version 1.0.
SHORT TITLE: FAA  97
YEAR: 1997
KEYWORDS: CMM
TERTIARY TITLE: SR109
URL: http://www.faa.gov/aio/ProcessEngr/iCMM/index.htm

You may save or load your tagged import formats, and will find some predefined ones in the _INSTALLDIR_\Data\DataFormats folder.

Tip : for each given tag separator, you can specify multiple import formats in the same filter, since you can map as many tags to WIT fields as you want. For instance, for the WIT Title fields, you could associate the NASA Astrophysics  Data System '%T' title, and the Refworks © "T1" title.