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Hi,
We have recently switched to Ex Libris' Primo for our discovery layer, and I am finding some problems with the data that is pulled into Zotero. The biggest annoyance is that individual book authors display in Zotero as corporate authors. For example, Astrid Nehlig, the author of Coffee, tea, chocolate, and the brain, displays as Astrid Nehlig, all one field, rather than Nehlig, Astrid (last name, first name fields). The result is that the author is sorted by the first name in the Zotero pane, and the citations created from the record use the first name first (rather than last name first).
Here is an example record (just log in as guest in Primo): http://alliance-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/OSU:CP71126024720001451
(and yes, my holiday-themed test search is chocolate consumption).
Is this something that can be fixed on the Zotero end, or is this a Primo problem?
There are other problems with how Zotero and Primo work together (ebooks are recognized as "documents" in Zotero, the notes field goes into the abstract field, call numbers are incomplete), but currently the author one is the most frustrating because you can't even create a basic citation without a lot of tweaking.
Thanks for any suggestions or help.
Hannah
We have recently switched to Ex Libris' Primo for our discovery layer, and I am finding some problems with the data that is pulled into Zotero. The biggest annoyance is that individual book authors display in Zotero as corporate authors. For example, Astrid Nehlig, the author of Coffee, tea, chocolate, and the brain, displays as Astrid Nehlig, all one field, rather than Nehlig, Astrid (last name, first name fields). The result is that the author is sorted by the first name in the Zotero pane, and the citations created from the record use the first name first (rather than last name first).
Here is an example record (just log in as guest in Primo): http://alliance-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/OSU:CP71126024720001451
(and yes, my holiday-themed test search is chocolate consumption).
Is this something that can be fixed on the Zotero end, or is this a Primo problem?
There are other problems with how Zotero and Primo work together (ebooks are recognized as "documents" in Zotero, the notes field goes into the abstract field, call numbers are incomplete), but currently the author one is the most frustrating because you can't even create a basic citation without a lot of tweaking.
Thanks for any suggestions or help.
Hannah
we can look at this again in the Primo translator, but what's going on is that Zotero is getting the name from the dispay/contributor field in the PNX data, and it's "Astrid Nehlig" (rather than ("Nehlig, Astrid") there. It's correct in other places in the PNX, but unfortunately these aren't very standardized, so the moment we change this we risk breaking it somewhere else.
@zuphilip - you know most about Primo: do you have an opinion on what the best place to look for the author is that would be universally applicable.
http://alliance-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo_library/libweb/showPNX.jsp?id=CP71126024720001451
http://alliance-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo_library/libweb/showPNX.jsp?id=0
http://alliance-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?docId=CP71126024720001451&fn=permalink&vid=OSU&showPnx=true
None of those work for me, so the import just fails. If it's working for you, then could you post the PNX record from one of those links to https://gist.github.com and link to it here?
<addata>
<aulast>Nehlig</aulast>
<aufirst>Astrid</aufirst>
I haven't check the translator.
@hannahgr : There is also a jsp file on EL Commons which will be recognized by zotero and allows picker on Primo Central as well. BTW are you running Alma already in production? We will make that change 2015.
Regarding abstract, Zotero defaults to the abstract field in addata, which contains the note instead of the abstract. Interestingly, addata seems like a good source of metadata in general, but I'm not sure why the decision was made to not use that metadata (possibly not present in most cases?) Can't find good documentation on the PNX format either atm (adamsmith, zuphilip?).
The call number part is a bit messy and I personally think should be handled differently. Are you aware that you can just toggle field mode by clicking on the icon next to the name? (it's a single rectangle for corporate authors and double for personal names)
I've never been able to track down PNX specifications/documentation.
I don't think the order was a conscious decision, but I could be wrong. Unfortunately that was a long discussion with multiple squashed commits, so I we don't have the details any more.
Zotero.Utilities.cleanAuthor(creator[j], "author", test=true)For the abstract: I can't remember why the preferences are made as they are. Maybe we should just look at some examples. Generelly, the display section should be IMO prefered, because that is also what the user is seeing on that page. The addata section migth also be more important for PrimoCentral (the article database from ExLibris). Every field beginning with `l` (lds, lso, lsr ...) is a local field and can be used for whatever makes sense locally. However, also most of the other fields can be locally changed.
For the PNX documentation: I have somewhere the xsd file for it, but this doesn't say much (just the names and number of occurences). Besides there are handbooks (!) with a lot of other information about how Primo works.
I cannot remember how the rules (in Primo) for the addata section are and what exactly they influence in Primo. I will try to check later...