erroneous PDF metadata

dawn

Is anyone else having problems with PDFs that somehow pick up and enter erroneous metadata when you run that function? Out of about 30 I ran today, so far 2 of them came out *really* wrong -- not the same topic or journal or anything at all. Is there a known issue that needs fixing? Or is this just something that happens and you have to keep a sharp eye out?

adamsmith

the latter. Zotero guesses PDF metadata - first by trying to find a DOI and looking that up, then by trying to find the article on google scholar by searching for a phrase from the first page.
Neither system is failsafe.

dawn

Thank you, Adam! -- Dawn

aurimas

Could you let us know which two PDFs failed? Link to them online if possible

dawn

This is one:
The Autobiography of David Crockett by David Crockett
Review by: S. L. W.The Sewanee Review, Vol. 33, No. 4 (Oct., 1925), p. 509Published by: The Johns Hopkins University PressStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27533941 .
It returned metadata for "A kiss is just a kiss: heterosexuality and its consolation in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." C. Dinshaw (author), publication "diacritics", ol. 24, pp. 205-205 (sic), 1994.

The other is:
Tennessee's Place in History
Author(s): William Cocke, B. Franklin, B. J. RamageReviewed work(s):Source: The Sewanee Review, Vol. 5, No. 2 (Apr., 1897), pp. 171-191Published by: The Johns Hopkins University PressStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27527925 .
It returned metadata for "Ownership of Petroleum Oil and Natural Gas in Place," Author D. E. Greer, publication "W. Va. LQ", vol. 29, page 172, 1922.

I am sorry I can't figure out how to link to them in this box.

Dawn