Which site translators would you like to see?, take 2

Matthew HudgensHaney

I'd like to see a translator for this The UC Davis MIND Institute:

http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/mindinstitute/events/dls_recorded_events.html

jonesfsu

I would like to see a translator for APA PsycArticles hosted through APA PsycNet. These are apparently translated currently through an EbscoHost portal (is this the right word?), which I don't have access to.

http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=browsePA.volumes&jcode=xlm

Matthew HudgensHaney

I'd like to see these:

http://ndpr.nd.edu/
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/

Thanks

chestergk

Hi,

I'd love to see translators for any of the following. I'm trying to make a local high school see Zotero as indispensable as they start doing research, yet none of their recommended internet resources for their upcoming project are translator friendly. Eeek!

http://www.bioethics.net
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/
http://health.nih.gov/
http://www.medlineplus.gov
http://cnn.com/
http://www.news.yahoo.com/
http://www.bionetonline.org/
http://www.actionbioscience.org/

chestergk

And...

SIRS Knowledge Source http://www.sirs.com
iCONN http://www.iCONN.org
 

d_parker86

Would be great to see translators for;

PubMed: - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/advanced
Web of Knowledge: - http://www.isiknowledge.com

Thanks

tpospich8

It would be great to add support for Zentralblatt MATH Database

http://www.zentralblatt-math.org/zmath/en/

one of the two comprehensive review sites for mathematics. Currently one can copy and import a BibTeX entry, but it would be far more convenient to get a full support by a Zotero translator.

[AMS MathSciNet, the other math review site, is apparently fully supported, but unlike Zentralblatt, does not offer any free search to non-subscribers. Even that translator is not perfect, though, see http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/7895/ams-mathscinet-translator-doesnt-recognize-some-valid-pages/ which unfortunately still applies to Zotero 2.0.2.]

lkstepp

Please put Sage Publications on your translator list to be worked if you can -- I didn't see it on the list of in process, requested, or unsupportable, but I've seen multiple requests in the forums -thanks!
laura

adamsmith

lkstepp - sage journals are already supported - if you can't import from a journal go through the translator troubleshooting steps
http://www.zotero.org/support/troubleshooting_translator_issues
and if they don't resolve the issue, open a new thread.

Herve Robin

Hello
could you please adapt Zotero and PEDro (physiotherapy evidence DB: http://www.pedro.org.au/)
I can't see zotero-tool in Firefox location bar.
maybe it could be useful for physiotherapists, students or professors
thank you

chrus

tessmann.it - Landesbibliothek Südtirol (Public Library of South Tyrol)
http://www.tessmann.it/

P.S.: I found the extensive tutorial to make Zotero-Translators: http://niche-canada.org/member-projects/zotero-guide/chapter1.html
But for me learning JavaScipt is something to much for my goal, instead I continue to enter the data manually. It is sad that the librarys use so different non standardized book data listings HTML and there is no easier way to make an importer in Zotero.

seth.denbo

British Newspapers 1600-1900

Eighteenth Century Collections Online

Both at http://find.galegroup.com/

It appears that The Times Digital Archive, also by Gale has already been done and these are major resources for historians.

Pinchart

Can you add translators for those french-speaking sites :
actuabd.com
week-ends.be
actualitte.com ?
Thank you.
Patrick

claporte

I would love to see translators for eHRAF World Cultures and Archeology (a collection of ethnographies and archeological field reports hosted by Yale university)

http://ehrafworldcultures.yale.edu/ehrafe/
http://ehrafarchaeology.yale.edu/ehrafa/

Thanks!

ajlyon

I would love to see translators for eHRAF World Cultures and Archeology (a collection of ethnographies and archeological field reports hosted by Yale university)

Both of these sites seem to be password-protected, so it's unlikely an outside person will be able to work on them. If you have contacts at Yale, you may want to encourage them to provide useful metadata that Zotero can use without a special translator -- point them to http://www.zotero.org/support/make_your_site_zotero_ready .

adamsmith

just a note for people requesting - at this point it's highly unlikely that someone will come along and fulfill your request. There are barely enough volunteers and staff to keep the current translators working.

You have three options:
1. Contact the database and suggest they expose their metadata:
http://www.zotero.org/support/make_your_site_zotero_ready
2. learn how to write a translator yourself and contribute
http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/how_to_write_a_zotero_translator_plusplus
3. Find someone else who is able to write a translator, either by paying them or because they are also interested in using Zotero on that particular database.

obviously no one can keep you from adding more requests here, but I thought it'd be useful to make clear that you shouldn't get your hopes up.

claporte

ajlyon --- will do! Thx!

maxximuscool

I can help write the translators for any requested sites, if you would like to contribute with a bit of small fees. Due to the nature of this translators implementation required a lot of time and testing, I would probably not going to push myself to do it all for nothing.

I've wrote 3 translators for Zotero (NZheralds.co.nz, stuff.co.nz, and TVNZ.co.nz).

brekhusr

I would like to see a translator for JournalTOCs

http://www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk

This is a huge, multidisciplinary (and, amazingly, free) current-awareness resource, the content of which changes frequently.

seth.denbo

In general museums and objects are undersupported by Zotero so it would be nice to see both an item type for 'Object' ('Artwork' doesn't quite do the job) and translators for some major museums such as:

The Victoria and Albert Museum http://collections.vam.ac.uk/

The Smithsonian http://www.siris.si.edu/

Valery

It would be good for russians to see a translator for the main russian database of scientific publications
http://elibrary.ru
There are more than 1700 russian journals and more than 12 000 000 items in this database.
I will help with it if only I can.

Thank you
Valery Mukhin

ajlyon

@Valery:
Please go to http://github.com/ajlyon/zotero-bits/raw/master/eLibrary.ru.js and save the file to the translators directory of your Zotero data directory (http://www.zotero.org/support/zotero_data).

Restart Firefox and the site will start working. I still need to add support for PDF saving, but everything else is fine for now.

And thanks for pointing out the site -- it will be very useful for me personally.

ajlyon

@Valery: The eLibrary translator is now in the Zotero repository (https://www.zotero.org/trac/changeset/7081).

In general, however, translators don't get written this quickly. This is a good example of how, for better or for worse, most development of new translators is driven by self-interest.

clousley

Please add a translator for the British Film Institute's Film and TV Database:
http://www.bfi.org.uk/filmtvinfo/ftvdb/

Valery

@ajlyon:
Dear Avram,
Thank you for the tranlator and for so quickly making of it. Yes, it works. But there are some shortcomings in it. If only you could get back and improve the program.
https://www.zotero.org/trac/changeset/7081
1. The translator catches up only the first author from the list.
2. Sometimes there are several author lines in the site. This is so when authors are from different institutions. For example see http://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=12690735
When it is so, the translator does not catch up the article and gives an error message.
3. The translator detects the type of publications incorrectly. I have the russian version so do not know exactly how it will be in English... Not "article from periodics", but "article from journal".

ajlyon

@Valery:
Тут можно на любом языке обращаться. Постараюсь устранить эти недостатки. По пунктам:

1-2. Боялся, что такое будет. Не особо искал статьи с больше одного автора, но ожидал, что придется еще поработать.

3. Также и не видел какие бывают типы статьей на сайте-- я видел только "научная статья" и "разное", и оба типа сосчитал за Zotero-ский тип "journalArticle" (не знаю как его называют в русской версии программы). Если можете, было бы хорошо видеть список возможных типов, чтобы могли их правильно распределить по зотерским типам.

Более гибкий и правильный вариант скоро выставлю.

Valery

@ajlyon:
По поводу третьего пункта могу сказать, что у вас (у вашей программы) как раз получается НЕ "journalArticle" (в русской версии это, насколько я понимаю, "статья из журнала"). А надо, чтобы -- "journalArticle".
Не удержусь... Хочется пошутить: интересно, что лучше: мой английский или ваш русский. Только не обижайтесь, у вас довольно хорошо получается. Я даже не берусь определить: вы хорошо выучили русский, или вы его хорошо забыли!
Ещё раз спасибо за программу, буду ждать следующей версии.
Всех благ!

ajlyon

Пункт третий касается типов на сайте eLibrary.ru, указанная под "тип" на страницах сайта. К примеру:
http://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=12690735 -- научная статья
http://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=9526214 -- разное
... какие еще бывают?

Идея такая, что эти типы будут отнесены в скрипте к соответствующим типам в Zotero. Они пока относятся все к типу "journalArticle".

Скоро закончу новую версию -- может получится по-лучше в этот раз.

Valery

@ajlyon:
Ещё бывают следующие типы:
"учебное пособие" -- аналога в Zotero нет, отнесите его к "книгам", видимо "book"
"монография" -- аналога в Zotero нет, отнесите его к "книгам", видимо "book"
Возможно, есть и другие типы, не знаю...

ajlyon

Можете скачать новую версию здесь: http://github.com/ajlyon/zotero-bits/raw/master/eLibrary.ru.js

(И теперь еще раз обновил. Вроде все теперь работает как положено.)