Upgrade StorageBulk import and tagging of related files
Hi all,
I've got a large collection of online magazine articles as PDFs:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u12144796/yj3qvc2puiti0bafz95b.png
This is just one screenshot - I've got over 1000 of these PDFs
- all written by the same author
- all written 1 week apart
The challenge is how to use sections of those PDFs in citations. From what I understand of Zotero, I think I have to create a parent item for each PDF, then add the metadata to the parent item, then use that metadata in the citation. Please correct me if that's wrong, and I can do citations from the "raw" PDFs.
What I'd like to do for all of 1000+ articles is:
- add a parent item to each one
- populate the metadata in the parent item with the author's name (i.e. identical for every article)
- populate the metadata in the parent item with the article date (so the most recent one would be from last Saturday, and each one prior to that would be 7 days earlier. I could potentially grab the date from the file itself)
Is there an easy way to do this, without manually going through each PDF? If it helps, I'm a competent programmer and quite happy to use any APIs that would achieve this result, but I suspect there's probably a simple way to do it without coding
Thanks in advance
I've got a large collection of online magazine articles as PDFs:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u12144796/yj3qvc2puiti0bafz95b.png
This is just one screenshot - I've got over 1000 of these PDFs
- all written by the same author
- all written 1 week apart
The challenge is how to use sections of those PDFs in citations. From what I understand of Zotero, I think I have to create a parent item for each PDF, then add the metadata to the parent item, then use that metadata in the citation. Please correct me if that's wrong, and I can do citations from the "raw" PDFs.
What I'd like to do for all of 1000+ articles is:
- add a parent item to each one
- populate the metadata in the parent item with the author's name (i.e. identical for every article)
- populate the metadata in the parent item with the article date (so the most recent one would be from last Saturday, and each one prior to that would be 7 days earlier. I could potentially grab the date from the file itself)
Is there an easy way to do this, without manually going through each PDF? If it helps, I'm a competent programmer and quite happy to use any APIs that would achieve this result, but I suspect there's probably a simple way to do it without coding
Thanks in advance