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    • CommentAuthorbill
    • CommentTimeJun 14th 2007
     
    I have some basic translators for the the following:

    Law Reviews
    * HeinOnline

    Laws/Statutes/Regulations
    * U.S. Electronic Code of Federal Regulations (e-CFR)

    Legal Information Institutes
    * Australasian and New Zealand Legal Information Institute
    * British and Irish Legal Information Institute
    * Canadian Legal Information Institute
    * Cornell's Legal Information Institute

    U.S. Patents
    * USPTO

    For those who want to experiment and improve them, the source is available here: http://code.google.com/p/zotero-for-lawyers/

    For users (Windows) who just want to install them: http://zotero-for-lawyers.googlecode.com/files/zotero-for-lawyers-win32-installer.exe
    • CommentAuthorsean
    • CommentTimeJun 15th 2007
     
    If these translators are ready for primetime, we are happy to add them to the general Zotero repository. Please let us know.
    • CommentAuthorbill
    • CommentTimeJun 15th 2007
     
    yes, please add them
    • CommentAuthorsean
    • CommentTimeJun 18th 2007
     
    Your translators are now available. Zotero should update to the new translators automatically within 24 hours. You can update manually by going to the Preferences under the Actions (gear) menu and clicking "Update Now".
    • CommentAuthormoritzes
    • CommentTimeJun 18th 2007
     
    Bill- Thanks for the translators! Hein Online is an especially good one for me (law professor). Any chance you'll take a crack at Lexis/Nexis (the law site, not the general academic site, already "scraped" by Zotero) and Westlaw?
    -Stewart
    • CommentAuthorbill
    • CommentTimeJun 18th 2007
     
    Hi Stewart,

    I'd love to take a crack at L/N and Westlaw. Unfortunately, I don't have active accounts. I last practiced law in 1995 and have been a programmer in Cambridge MA since then.

    I was recently able to get a reasonably priced student membership to the Social Law Library in Boston since I'm enrolled in a MLIS program. This allows me to use HeinOnline, FastCase, InfoTrac and some other services remotely. I still need to take a trip to the library in order to use Westlaw. So, I'm planning to try to add Westlaw sometime this summer (probably in July).

    Forward any feedback you might have on the HeinOnline translator - you are my target audience.
    • CommentAuthormdelcarlo
    • CommentTimeJun 20th 2007 edited
     
    Thank you for posting the USPTO translator. Unfortunately it doesn't extract the abstract properly, which leaves that field blank in the exported citation.
    • CommentAuthorbill
    • CommentTimeJun 20th 2007
     
    Unfortunately, translators are based on "screen-scraping" techniques and are, therefore, fragile. If you post a link to the patent in question, I might be able to fix it and update the translator.
    • CommentAuthorbill
    • CommentTimeJun 20th 2007
     
    Looks like Zotero's field name for abstract recently changed from "abstract" to "abstractNote." I'll update relevant translators and give Sean a shout when I'm done.
    • CommentAuthorsean
    • CommentTimeJun 20th 2007
     
    I've already gone ahead and updated the HeinOnline and USPTO translators accordingly. They'll be available later today.
    • CommentAuthormdelcarlo
    • CommentTimeJun 20th 2007
     
    Fantastic! Zotero's patent citation functionality is an extremely valuable resource. Look at EndNote, it's a couple hundred dollars for something that will search just about every university library in the country but curiously can't generate a single patent citation. In fact, they did that on purpose because the same company owns Delphion. I'm a professor and my department gives them thousands of dollars every year for access to freely available information. All they do is parse out a couple more things like the claims, specification, and forward & reverse citations. Hardly seems worth all that money. Anyway, well done Zotero!
    • CommentAuthorIsis
    • CommentTimeMar 15th 2008
     
    What is the status of these translators? I can;t download them, and can't seem to get Zotero to work with Lexis, WestLaw or HeinonLine

    Thanks!

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