unAPI translator does not work

salarmehr · January 16, 2013

In following two pages that both use unAPI, no document can be fetched:

1. http://inspirehep.net/search?p=citedby%3Aauthor%3Aellis+-refersto%3Aauthor%3Awitten
2. http://www.noormags.com/view/fa/lowsearch?txt=sd

I use Zotero 3.0.11 on firefox 18 in windows 7

Do you know any other site that use unAPI that can I test the translator on it?

noksagt · January 16, 2013

The unAPI validator finds problems with those sites:
http://validator.unapi.info/validate/results?url=http://www.noormags.com/view/fa/lowsearch?txt=sd&commit=validate!

Other sites with unAPI work:
http://arc.nucapt.northwestern.edu/refbase/show.php?author=ellis

adamsmith · January 16, 2013

there is something odd going on - I don't think Zotero's unAPI is working as it should, but I don't quite get what's going on. Maybe Simon could take a look?

Simon · January 16, 2013

The MODS from (1) is invalid. The <modsCollection> tag lacks a namespace: http://inspirehep.net/record/1206610/export/xo

The RIS on (2) returns 403: http://www.noormags.com/view/CitationHandler.ashx?id=59302&format=ris

adamsmith · January 16, 2013

but why doesn't it even detect unAPI e.g. here:
http://inspirehep.net/record/1206610

Simon · January 16, 2013

On single item pages, the unAPI translator fetches the metadata on detect to get the item type. Because the metadata is an invalid MODS file, it doesn't detect anything.

adamsmith · February 2, 2013

I've contacted inspire about that - let's see if they're willing to fix that. Otherwise inspire would be an easy translator to write, it'd just be a shame given that they have unAPI.

adamsmith · March 16, 2014

I've just added an INSPIRE translator since they still hadn't added the ns on modsCollections