Upgrade StorageInitial questions about article abstracts
Hello Zotero crew!
I have a gazillion questions about article abstracts in Zotero. I'll start with just a few questions.
Q1) Is the only place where article abstracts show up in the "Abstract" area, below the "Info" area, above the "Attachment" area, on the far right side of the Zotero app, immediately to the right of the list of titles?
I'm using 7.0 as a Flatpak and it looks more or else like what I see when I use Zotero in browser via the website. I just see the abstract in plain text without formatting.
Q2) How can I know whether the abstract data for an article is coming from Crossref?
Q3) Do abstracts usually come from Crossref, or form other sources?
Q4) Are the .js files in github.com/zotero/translators the first point of code where abstract data enters the Zotero system? How does Zotero decide which translator to use? Are these run locally when I do a search to add a new reference item to my Zotero library?
Q5) Is github.com/zotero/zotero/blob/main/chrome/content/zotero/elements/abstractBox.js the code that actually renders/outputs the abstract box I see in Q1?
Q6) Does 5 count as a "few questions"? Are they even really 5 question? Or more like 8?
Cheers,
Castedo
PS I love y'all's work! Zotero is one of the few services that I am willing pay a
subscription for because I like Zotero so much, at so many levels.
I have a gazillion questions about article abstracts in Zotero. I'll start with just a few questions.
Q1) Is the only place where article abstracts show up in the "Abstract" area, below the "Info" area, above the "Attachment" area, on the far right side of the Zotero app, immediately to the right of the list of titles?
I'm using 7.0 as a Flatpak and it looks more or else like what I see when I use Zotero in browser via the website. I just see the abstract in plain text without formatting.
Q2) How can I know whether the abstract data for an article is coming from Crossref?
Q3) Do abstracts usually come from Crossref, or form other sources?
Q4) Are the .js files in github.com/zotero/translators the first point of code where abstract data enters the Zotero system? How does Zotero decide which translator to use? Are these run locally when I do a search to add a new reference item to my Zotero library?
Q5) Is github.com/zotero/zotero/blob/main/chrome/content/zotero/elements/abstractBox.js the code that actually renders/outputs the abstract box I see in Q1?
Q6) Does 5 count as a "few questions"? Are they even really 5 question? Or more like 8?
Cheers,
Castedo
PS I love y'all's work! Zotero is one of the few services that I am willing pay a
subscription for because I like Zotero so much, at so many levels.
I am developing an authoring/archiving/self-publishing tool (https://try.perm.pub/baseprinter/) that one can think of as more of less like a special kind of preprint for a distributed archive federation. Sometimes these "preprints" would get registered with Crossref, sometimes not.
I want to help authors have an idea what their abstract will end up looking like in destinations like Zotero. I also want to help them NOT archive/self-publish abstracts that will look terrible due to using unsupported/obsolete formatting features.
So for example, I'm planning to NOT allow tables in an abstract. I'm now systematically going through the JATS features that do or do not make sense to archive in an abstract based on today's levels of support/implementation.
An example of a preview (via GitHub) is https://castedo.github.io/baseprint-example/ So my idea is to have another button or something showing what the abstract would more-or-less look like, say as plain text in Zotero. Or perhaps as HTML if Zotero implements showing abstracts in HTML.