Upgrade StorageRIS import to Zotero, not Endnote is not working.
I have a problem getting RIS (endnote) files to be handled by Zotero. I have checked off that I want to use Zotero for downloaded endnote files in preferences. Yet nothing special/different happens when I click on a link that creates a RIS file. A popup screen opens that asks if I want endnote web helper to handle the ris file or download. This is the same behavior when this preference was unchecked or when zotero was not installed. Have installed and uninstalled zotero. Have started browser and system in between. Nothing seems to make difference.
I am using mozilla 2 on Windoze. I have endnote 10 and the webhelper that installs with it.
Should ris be seen as a mime type to handled by a plugin in mozilla? It is not--> A RIS file is not listed in mime types when look at Tools:Options:Content:file types. There is no plugin listed that handles the ris files when go to "about:plugins".
Not sure I am understanding this correctly, but should not the "file types" list in Endnote option list "ris" as something that is handled by a plugin? If it is just relying on default behavior of mimetype in windoze directly, it will just open in endnote, yes? Do I register the mimetype in windows to some program to make zotero work?
Any thoughts? I would assume that when I click on a file that is a RIS endnote file, it would do something with Zotero: Am I misunderstanding something? Anyone else having this problem? (I need this, as many sites I need do not screenscrape successfully, but do usually offer RIS export. Cannot use this great tool routinely, till RIS links open in zotero!)
Thanks for any pointers or help.
I am using mozilla 2 on Windoze. I have endnote 10 and the webhelper that installs with it.
Should ris be seen as a mime type to handled by a plugin in mozilla? It is not--> A RIS file is not listed in mime types when look at Tools:Options:Content:file types. There is no plugin listed that handles the ris files when go to "about:plugins".
Not sure I am understanding this correctly, but should not the "file types" list in Endnote option list "ris" as something that is handled by a plugin? If it is just relying on default behavior of mimetype in windoze directly, it will just open in endnote, yes? Do I register the mimetype in windows to some program to make zotero work?
Any thoughts? I would assume that when I click on a file that is a RIS endnote file, it would do something with Zotero: Am I misunderstanding something? Anyone else having this problem? (I need this, as many sites I need do not screenscrape successfully, but do usually offer RIS export. Cannot use this great tool routinely, till RIS links open in zotero!)
Thanks for any pointers or help.
When the pref is enabled, Zotero registers a content listener internally, so you won't see anything in Tools:Options:Content:File Types, but any files with the MIME types application/x-endnote-refer or application/x-research-info-systems should theoretically be intercepted by Zotero.
These work.
-Nucleic Acid Research works (but the first and last names seemed a litlle wrong) .
-BMC bioinformatics works.
-Trends in Genetics (science Direct works)
-Journal of biological chemistry works
--Several that did not work with an example I tried , for example...
-Nature does not work
-Nature Genetics does not work
(e.g. http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v36/n9/abs/ng0904-921.html )
-Cell does not work
-the hubmed.org entries do not work
e.g. http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=15340423 export as ris
-Nature Neuroscience
-Mammalian Genome does not work.
Does this help? (do not remember a quick way to determine mime type, or I might have done more diagnosis. let me know a pointer to doing that if you want me to help diagnose if different declared mime types are issue from different journals. )
thanks!
Essentially the way it works now it is a crap shoot as to whether the citation goes to Endnote or to Zotero, with this option flagged. Without option, they ALL go to Endnote
Great tool, but this really gets in the way of using it if it is finicky about how the Mime type is declared on site by site basis.
thanks for the tool, though.
Except for the first tag of each reference, which must be "TY - " and the last tag of each reference, which must be "ER - ," the tags within each reference can be in any order.
Both of these sources contain headers, which the spec doesn't provide for. I intend to change the code slightly so that it's a bit more lenient here.
many cites do not expose "correct" MIME type for RIS files while you export citation... being fed up with it (has sent emails to few online journals, such as Neuron) I've just patched zotero with:
--- chrome/content/zotero/xpcom/mimeTypeHandler.js.orig 2008-10-31 15:46:10.000000000 -0400
+++ chrome/content/zotero/xpcom/mimeTypeHandler.js 2009-08-27 08:49:25.000000000 -0400
@@ -49,6 +49,11 @@
if(Zotero.Prefs.get("parseEndNoteMIMETypes")) {
this.addHandler("application/x-endnote-refer", Zotero.Ingester.importHandler, true);
this.addHandler("application/x-research-info-systems", Zotero.Ingester.importHandler, true);
+ /* Nature uses this one */
+ this.addHandler("text/application/x-research-info-systems", Zotero.Ingester.importHandler, true);
+ this.addHandler("text/x-research-info-systems", Zotero.Ingester.importHandler, true);
+ /* Cell uses this one */
+ this.addHandler("text/ris", Zotero.Ingester.importHandler, true);
}
this.addHandler("text/x-csl", function(a1, a2) { Zotero.Styles.install(a1, a2) });
}
I guess it would be great if it would be incorporated upstream -- it might take all publishers a while (if ever) to converge to somewhat more 'standard' mime type for RIS, as zotero relies upon it
it might be also useful to add
this.addHandler("ris", Zotero.Ingester.importHandler, true);
it shouldn't conflict with anything else but I think I've seen this mimetype somewhere as well