Zotero 5.0.21 - Translator issue

luisiafalves · September 30, 2017

Hi,

I'm having troubles with zotero translator at a webpage were mendeley is able to recognize as a book and get some author information "https://www.evolution.com.br/product/projeto-e-clculo-de-estruturas-de-ao-1ed"

I used chorme and mozzila's zotero connector.

When using zotero connector, it's always generic translator such as: "Web page with metadata" or "Embedded Metadata" and neither are able to get relevant informations about the book.

Can I do something to make it work? Since it's a brazilian page, you probably doesn't need to improve that now.

Thanks!

adamsmith · September 30, 2017

There isn't much structure on the page that we could use. I think what Mendeley does is to identify the ISBN and use that to import. Zotero doesn't do that (we could consider it, but there are downsides; it will miscategorize every webpage/article with an ISBN as a book, e.g. book reviews like http://www.thewashingtonbookreview.com/br/delicious-healthy-and-flavorful/ ).

What you can easily do is to select the ISBN and paste it into Zotero's "Add by Identifier" (magic wand) window, which will import the book in three clicks instead of one.

dstillman · September 30, 2017

(With the unified embedded metadata translator, we could offer an ISBN option that only ever showed in the context menu, not as a primary option.)