Does not read Metadata in firefox

haseler
I stopped using Zotera for a while after I finished a course and the firefox update stopped it working and uninstalled the plug in.

I then tried to reinstall zotera from Firefox and added a couple of plugins that were things like "citatation exporter.

Eventually (when I finally gave it another go) I did a search found the download and loaded the standalone version. Again after wondering why it didn't work I eventually worked out that the firefox icon that was highlighted was something I had to click.

OK, so it was finally working - and it picked up my previous work.

But it seemed to be a lot more work than I had remembered to add citations. The only option I get is create web page from current page ... even on PDFs. And then the only field that seems to be filled in is the title and often than is just gibberish.

Assuming this was because people weren't putting the right Metadata I looked to see what I should be putting on my own webpages to make it work with Zotera.

Checking it out I eventually put this together:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html><head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width">
<title>Test Citation Page</title>
<meta property="dc:creator" content="Old Guy">
<meta property="dc:contributor" content="Contributor repository">
<meta property="dc:publisher" content="National Library">
<meta property="dc.rights" content="Repository">
<meta property="dc.rights" content="Library">
<meta property="dc:title" content="Archive Title">
<meta property="dc:type" content="Document">
<meta property="dc.identifier" content="http://www.example.com/archives/tree/1/2">
<meta property="dc.language" content="en-GB">
<meta property="dc.subject" content="Archive">
<meta property="dc.subject" content="WW1">
<meta property="dc.date" content="1914">
<meta property="dc.source" content="http://www.example.com/archives/parent/3/2">
</head><body>
<p>This is a test page</p>
</body></html>

Contrary to what has been said on other posts, it is only picking up one of these metatags (the <title> one).

I unistalled all Zotera firefox add ons, restarted, reinstalled and it is the same.

Zotera is version 4.0.11
Firefox is 24.0

The rdf I get for the Zotera.org home page is:-

<rdf:RDF
xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
xmlns:z="http://www.zotero.org/namespaces/export#"
xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/"
xmlns:link="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/link/"
xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
xmlns:bib="http://purl.org/net/biblio#">
<bib:Document rdf:about="http://www.zotero.org/">
<z:itemType>webpage</z:itemType>
<dcterms:isPartOf>
<z:Website></z:Website>
</dcterms:isPartOf>
<link:link rdf:resource="#item_760"/>
<dc:title>Zotero | Home</dc:title>
<dc:identifier>
<dcterms:URI>
<rdf:value>http://www.zotero.org/</rdf:value>;
</dcterms:URI>
</dc:identifier>
<dcterms:dateSubmitted>2013-10-05 10:22:53</dcterms:dateSubmitted>
</bib:Document>
<z:Attachment rdf:about="#item_760">
<z:itemType>attachment</z:itemType>
<dc:title>Zotero | Home</dc:title>
<dcterms:dateSubmitted>2013-10-05 10:22:55</dcterms:dateSubmitted>
<dc:identifier>
<dcterms:URI>
<rdf:value>http://www.zotero.org/</rdf:value>;
</dcterms:URI>
</dc:identifier>
<link:type>text/html</link:type>
<link:charset>1</link:charset>
</z:Attachment>
</rdf:RDF>

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