Which item type for statistics and databases?

orschiro

Hello,

I cannot see any special item type for statistics. How do you categorise online databases such as http://stats.oecd.org ?

When I classify them as web page Zotero cites them with the year derived from access date, e.g. (OECD 2012). However, I want to cite it as (OECD) without the year.

Possible?

Regards

Robert

adamsmith

we'll have a dataset item type in a bit - it's certainly planned - but in the meantime, substituting in the accessed date for webpages is a style feature, not something Zotero does in general. Are you sure this is required by the style? At least in APSA (and related) styles I don't think you'd want to cite databases without year in text.

orschiro

Hi Adam,

great to hear about the coming item type. As for the year. Some databases are composed of data from different years. In these case I would not like to have a year in my citation since that could indicate that all the data is from that year.

Robert

adamsmith

the date issue is up to you - but even in the future with a dataset item type, if you do want to cite without a year, you'll likely have to manually adjust the citation styles - all relevant citation styles I'm aware of - such as
APA, MLA, Chicago: http://libguides.lib.msu.edu/citedata
APSA http://www.apsanet.org/media/PDFs/Publications/APSAStyleManual2006.pdf (PDF - p. 20)
ASA: http://pubpages.unh.edu/~mas2/ASA%20style%20guide-07.pdf (PDF - p. 107)
as well as the datacite initiative:
http://datacite.org/whycitedata
cite data by the year of publication, including for time-series data - for continuously updated data as some databases on stats.oecd.org that would be the date of access.

orschiro

Thank you Adam! I will stick with you recommendation and use the accessed time date for time series data.

Robert

northsun

Any progress on this issue? There is still no dataset type in my freshly installed Zotero.

adamsmith

nothing new, no.

stevepepper

Four years later: Is there still no progress on the dataset type? RIS has a type DBASE that would be ideal for my needs, e.g.

Provider: DataverseNO
Content: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
TY - DBASE
T1 - Metonymy in Word-Formation: Russian, Czech, and Norwegian
AU - Janda, Laura A.
DO - hdl/10037.1/10020
PY - 2014
UR - https://hdl.handle.net/10037.1/10020
PB - DataverseNO
C1 - Norwegian metonymy2.xls
ER -

Steve

adamsmith

See https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/translators/datasets

adamsmith

That's basically what Zotero already imports via Browser connector from https://hdl.handle.net/10037.1/10020 btw.