[5.0 Beta] Patent RSS Feeds
Running some patent RSS feeds from Espacenet, and the 'creator' (inventor) field seems to be bugged, i.e. most items show something like "[US and [IN" where the RSS feed provides
Other requests: I made a similar request for zotero 4.x but it would be extremely helpful to show patent publication number/identifier and patent assignee/applicant in the main list (in Feeds and in the Library). Also, sort functionality (I think this has been mentioned elsewhere for the Beta). Thanks
Example Feed URL: https://worldwide.espacenet.com/websyndication/searchFeed?DB=EPODOC&ST=singleline&Submit=Search&locale=en_EP&query=cpc=G06K19/0723+AND+pd>=20161201)
(edit: not sure how to post code here, the tags were all removed, see the source from the RSS URL above)
RSS snippet:
<dc:creator>KURIAN MANU JACOB [US]; PURUSHOTHAMAN SASIDHAR [IN]</dc:creator>
(See example Feed URL and snippet from the RSS source below). Other items either show creator as blank, but some have the correct info. Other requests: I made a similar request for zotero 4.x but it would be extremely helpful to show patent publication number/identifier and patent assignee/applicant in the main list (in Feeds and in the Library). Also, sort functionality (I think this has been mentioned elsewhere for the Beta). Thanks
Example Feed URL: https://worldwide.espacenet.com/websyndication/searchFeed?DB=EPODOC&ST=singleline&Submit=Search&locale=en_EP&query=cpc=G06K19/0723+AND+pd>=20161201)
(edit: not sure how to post code here, the tags were all removed, see the source from the RSS URL above)
RSS snippet:
<item>
<title>Resource tag generation and deployment for resource valuation and distribution</title>
<link>https://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?CC=US&NR=9563873B1&KC=B1&FT=D&DB=EPODOC&locale=en_EP&date=20170207&rss=true</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2017 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<guid isPermaLink="false">https://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?CC=US&NR=9563873B1&KC=B1&FT=D&DB=EPODOC&locale=en_EP&date=20170207&rss=true</guid>
<dc:creator>KURIAN MANU JACOB [US]; PURUSHOTHAMAN SASIDHAR [IN]</dc:creator>
<dc:publisher>Espacenet</dc:publisher>
<dc:date>2017-02-07T12:00:00Z</dc:date>
<dc:identifier>US9563873B1 (B1)</dc:identifier>
<esp:applicants>BANK OF AMERICA [US]</esp:applicants>
<esp:cpcClassifications>G06Q10/087; G06K7/10366 (2)</esp:cpcClassifications>
<esp:ipcClassifications>G06F17/00; G06K17/00 (1)</esp:ipcClassifications>
<esp:publicationCycle>US9563873B1 - 2017-02-07</esp:publicationCycle>
<esp:priorityDate>2016-03-28</esp:priorityDate>
</item>
Regarding your second request - we'd generally want more customisability for the item list, but that comes at the cost of increased complexity (both in terms of code and UI) and this is not an often requested feature, so no promises on that one any time soon. We do welcome code contributions from the community if you want to give it a shot.
I guess I underestimated the difficulty in adding fields to the column/sort UI list, since the 'patent number' and 'assignee' fields are already parsed into the database for each cited patent. My coding skills are pretty weak, and not sure I'd know where to start, but maybe I could maybe take a stab at it...
https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/sample_plugin
Zotero 5.0 sill uses the XULrunner framework, so we're still talking basically Firefox add-ons (to be installed in Standalone).
But if not, maybe append Assignee to the Creator (Inventor) field. - i.e. "Bartman et al. (Microsoft)" if a cited item has a non-empty assignee field... You still couldn't sort by Assignee, but it would be better than nothing.
In any case I'll take a deeper look at the plugin dev area.