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    I note that Persée is listed on the Zotero compatible sites, but when I go there in Firefox 3, I do not get the Zotero icon in my address line. I get the "white star" (bookmark this page) but no helpful button to import a reference into my Zotero database.

    Is there a problem here with Zotero--or is it me and/or firefox? it would be great to get this working as Persée is apparently the only place that has an electronic edition of Annales, the French history journal...

    Here is the URL of Persée: http://www.persee.fr


    Thanks!
    • CommentAuthorsean
    • CommentTimeJun 27th 2008 edited
     
    Persée is not on the list of Zotero compatible sites. Perhaps you are confusing that list with the list of open translator requests. Support for Persée would be great, but it doesn't appear that the site provides any structured metadata or export format for citations. Is that assessment correct?
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    Hi Sean,
    Yes, I obviously got confused about the list I was looking at.

    I am not savvy enough to know how to identify "structured metadata" when I see it, but if you go to an article on Persée, the citation material is there, and there is even a little button (one of three red buttons below the author's name) that generates a popup window with a citation and a permanent url for the article. I take it that this information has to be in a particular format for Zotero to recognize it as such, otherwise it would be working...

    here is a sample article URL:
    http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rfsp_0035-2950_1962_num_12_1_403366

    In any case, it would be great if Zotero could translate from this site--it's a great resource for me and presumably for others..

    Thanks
    • CommentAuthorTjowens
    • CommentTimeJun 30th 2008
     
    The citation in the pop up is sadly not enough. By structured metadata we mean that the bibliographic information is clearly identified in a consistent fashion. When there is just a plain text citation it is not possible for Zotero to know which part is the author, the series number etc.

    Most databases of this sort allow their users to export in RIS, a common exchange format for bibliographic information. If you want Persée you should lobby them to add this feature.
    • CommentAuthorAcrymble
    • CommentTimeJul 14th 2008
     
    I've submitted an translator for Persee. Just took some creativity. Michael should have it; not sure if it's been made available to the public yet or not.

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