Chicago styles: director

jsglenn

Neither chicago-author-year nor chicago-fullnote-bibliography identify a director by "(dir.)" or "directed by", though such a string should appear (see http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/data/faq/topics/Documentation/faq0020.html).

I noticed that CSL does have a "director" variable; maybe it could be used here?

adamsmith

Zotero currently doesn't map to that variable so it can't be done in the CSL - should be possible to fix for the next version, though.

adamsmith

anyone know why that's the case, though? I thought
https://github.com/zotero/zotero/blob/f6e4e5f938954f5a0f68106dc0149a84640d2bd2/chrome/content/zotero/xpcom/utilities.js#L39
would map director to csls director

aurimas

If the actual mapping is done through itemToCSLJson (https://github.com/zotero/zotero/blob/f6e4e5f938954f5a0f68106dc0149a84640d2bd2/chrome/content/zotero/xpcom/utilities.js#L1331) then it looks like only the base fields are mapped. Director should be available through "author". I think we should map both base fields and the actul item-specific fields to CSL, so that both are available.

adamsmith

I think we should map both base fields and the actul item-specific fields to CSL, so that both are available.

agree

jsglenn

Do you see a possibility of implementing the optional use of "director" in chicago-author-year.csl and chicago-fullnote-bibliography.csl?

While Zotero might not benefit from this immediately, other processors such as citeproc-hs would.

adamsmith

we'd gladly accept a patch for the style if it doesn't break anything Zotero does, but I don't have a testing environment for other citeproc implementations, so I'm not going to do this until it works in a Zotero beta.