CanLII journal articles

AlexanderBurdett
Recently CanLII added a new database of journal articles (along with other secondary source material). Currently Zotero is not able to recognize the item type nor accurately capture citation information.

Sample journal articles: http://www.canlii.org/t/72t and http://www.canlii.org/t/727

Using Zotero 5.0.47 with Firefox Zotero Connector 5.0.38.
  • adamsmith
    It's not easy, I'm afraid. The reticence of the law community to implement anything resembling structured metadata literally anywhere is almost comical at this point.
  • fbennett
    Too true.
  • fbennett
    To be fair, CanLII does offer an API for cases and legislation.

    http://developer.canlii.org/docs/Cases

    Best of class is the CourtListener API:

    https://www.courtlistener.com/api/rest-info/

    But there is a tendency in the field to be stingy about support for reuse. Don't know if that's the case with the CanLII articles service. We'll see.
  • zuphilip
    @fbennett The API of CanLII looks interesting. Do you know whether they allow to save the same API key for all Zotero users in a translator?
  • fbennett
    @zuphilip Sorry - I think I stupidly responded by mail to the noreply notice from the forum, then didn't follow up when it bounced. I don't know what CanLII policy is, but it might be worth writing to them.
  • fbennett
    @AlexanderBurdett I have received a response from CanLII about the lack of structured metadata in the CanLII Articles pages, linking to the discussion here. Their response:
    Dear Mr. Bennett,

    Thank you for your feedback. This is a part of our future projects but no timelines have been established with this respect for the time being.

    Yours sincerely,

    The CanLII Team (g)
    There is not much we can do without structured metadata. You will have to retype the citation details for any items that you find there by hand.
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