Do-not-change option for list of fields about betterbib HOT 6 CLOSED

Okay, what I was doing didn't take as long as I thought so here goes:

Take the following entry as the sample:

@book{Adamczewski_2016,
 author = {Bartosz Adamczewski},
 doi = {10.3726/978-3-653-06278-6},
 month = {jan},
 publisher = {Peter Lang},
 title = {The Gospel of Luke},
 url = {https://doi.org/10.3726%2F978-3-653-06278-6},
 year = 2016,
}

This entry was created by downloading it directly from the Cite function on CrossRef (so I know the information will match exactly what betterbib will find). Run this through betterbib and it comes out:

@book{Adamczewski_2016,
 author = {Adamczewski, Bartosz},
 doi = {10.3726/978-3-653-06278-6},
 isbn = {9783653062786, 9783653959987, 9783653959970, 9783631667200},
 month = jan,
 publisher = {Peter Lang},
 source = {Crossref},
 title = {The Gospel of {Luke}},
 url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.3726/978-3-653-06278-6},
 year = {2016},
}

So far so good. However, let's introduce an error in the entry by removing the last letter of the author's last name:

@book{Adamczewski_2016,
 author = {Bartosz Adamczewsk},
 doi = {10.3726/978-3-653-06278-6},
 month = {jan},
 publisher = {Peter Lang},
 title = {The Gospel of Luke},
 url = {https://doi.org/10.3726%2F978-3-653-06278-6},
 year = 2016,
}

Now I get:

@book{Adamczewski_2016,
 author = {Adamczewsk, Bartosz},
 doi = {10.3726/978-3-653-06278-6},
 isbn = {9783653062786, 9783653959987, 9783653959970, 9783631667200},
 month = jan,
 publisher = {Peter Lang},
 source = {Crossref},
 title = {The Gospel of {Luke}},
 url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.3726/978-3-653-06278-6},
 year = {2016},
}

The misspelling has persisted and so betterbib hasn't actually fixed the entry properly. Instead, all it has done is add the information which CrossRef doesn't make available in its Cite link, but which betterbib does get as part of its query.

Correction: Casing of the field name has nothing to do with the error. I tried it again with all lowercase field names and the misspelled name still wasn't corrected.

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I made sure now that keys which are there in the original bibtex file are preserved through the sync. This should fix it.

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While not as generally applicable as a "do-not-change" list would have been, simply preserving the keys suits my purposes. Thanks.

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Hmm... May have spoken too soon. It seems that some fields are "preserved" even when corrected information is found on CrossRef.

I don't have time to work out all the details of what is going on at the moment, but my best guess is as follows:
This may have to do with case matching as field names in my original file are all initial caps, but betterbib uses all lowercase (i.e. Author vs. author). As a result Author is thought to be a field which is not present in the information collected from CrossRef, but when added, it overwrites the author field.

If you need more information, I'll try to set aside some time this weekend to look into this further.

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Nicely worked out. I'm looking at it now.

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Fixed that; update to betterbib 3.0.1.

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