Upgrade StorageAutomatic correction: spaces in Zotero import
When I import from a library catalogue in my browser (Firefox) to Zotero, Zotero automatically deletes the space before a ":" within in a title, e.g. "Test : test" is imported as "Test: test".
Would it be possible to elaborate this very helpful automatism? It should not only apply to the title but also to Publication, Series, Place and Publisher. It should not only apply to the ":" but also to ";", "," and ".".
Especially if you work with old books (printed before 1700) this is really annoying to take care of manually as librarians (for the catalogues) tended to use way to many spaces (originating form a habit before the digital catalogues). Yet, Zotero needs clean data, otherwise there are many typographical errors in the bibliograpy (B.t.w. these typographical errors also occur with some specific characters, too, especially from the Arabic, Hebrew and Greek alphabet...)
version => 5.0.52, platform => Win32, oscpu => Windows NT 5.1, locale => de, appName => Zotero, appVersion => 5.0.52, extensions => Zotero LibreOffice Integration (5.0.14.SA.5.0.52, extension), Zotero Word for Windows Integration (5.0.8.SA.5.0.52, extension), Shockwave Flash (21.0.0.182, plugin, disabled)
Would it be possible to elaborate this very helpful automatism? It should not only apply to the title but also to Publication, Series, Place and Publisher. It should not only apply to the ":" but also to ";", "," and ".".
Especially if you work with old books (printed before 1700) this is really annoying to take care of manually as librarians (for the catalogues) tended to use way to many spaces (originating form a habit before the digital catalogues). Yet, Zotero needs clean data, otherwise there are many typographical errors in the bibliograpy (B.t.w. these typographical errors also occur with some specific characters, too, especially from the Arabic, Hebrew and Greek alphabet...)
version => 5.0.52, platform => Win32, oscpu => Windows NT 5.1, locale => de, appName => Zotero, appVersion => 5.0.52, extensions => Zotero LibreOffice Integration (5.0.14.SA.5.0.52, extension), Zotero Word for Windows Integration (5.0.8.SA.5.0.52, extension), Shockwave Flash (21.0.0.182, plugin, disabled)
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25263750
There are other examples for Series, Publisher, Place etc.
I do my best to remove these before-colon spaces in the journal and book titles in SafetyLit. There has been much discussion among catalog experts about whether exports for the purpose of citation should contain the spaces. I took the leap for my database because most everyone who exports the metadata does so to cite the record. I hope that Zotero will do the same. This would relieve Zotero users of some of the hand-editing tasks. I'm one more Zotero user who would be pleased if this space were automatically removed.