Linking Discogs and Zotero

indicedigini

Hi all,

Is there a way or is there anyone aware of how to link Discogs (the worldcat of music) and Zotero? If not, I would like to help and support the development of a solution.

I would like to use the guidelines offered by the academic journal Dancecult (see Discography). https://dj.dancecult.net/public/journals/24/dancecult_styleguide.pdf

Best,
AK

Weetzie

Hi AK,

I'm not aware of any way to link Discogs and Zotero, but I know that Discogs has an open API so that might help get something started?

https://www.discogs.com/developers/

Best of luck!

indicedigini

Thank you! I will get in touch and let you know any further developments....

indicedigini

If anyone is interested in helping me translating Discogs entries for Zotero let me know

echantillonneur

Popped up here trying to find a solution for this exact "issue". Any news on how to solve it?

daeavelwyn

hi folks,

I'm on if someone get a solution to link/import informations from discog to zotero ! Some news ?

alflamingo

+1 for that request, I am interested too (create and manage playlist in my case, also for creating discographies. Somebody create a style for filmography by the way, maybe that could give some ideas, see in forum).

Skelbti

Hi,
I'm interested to improve the way how the web browser connector collect data from Discogs. I've got a bit of knowledge in coding but need help to find where to look at. Now, the connector finds that it's a recording, its date and mixed artist name with title.

What I suppose it should do is:
- to get the label name and its catalog ref
- add the country to place field
- add credit to Abstract field

If someone with better knowledge of how Zotero Web Browser connector see this message, please help.

aborel

At the moment, the connector is using metadata embedded in the web page, which doesn't always yield excellent results - as you can see. Better quality can be achieved using a dedicated web translator script:
https://www.zotero.org/support/translators
https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/translators

Translators are kind of fun to write, after your development environment is properly set up.

Skelbti

Thank you @aborel! Coding a translator doesn't seem too hard. I don't have the time to do it right now but I will as soon as possible.

escdotdot

[I'm no technical expert, so I doubt I would be any use on the development of this, but I would very like to +1 this effort as I am creating a catalogue for an archive of music publications, and all that information is currently in Discogs. I can certainly help as a tester though.]