Correct way to organise a Presentation

maccra

Hello, I am new to Zotero and have started to build up my library, collections and tagging. However I am not sure if I am using it correctly.

As an example, if I watch a presentation on the internet, I take some personal notes and afterwards the presentation I can download as a pdf and also the video recording can be downloaded.

So I make an Item Type "Presentation" and add as attachments my notes, the pdf and video to this Presentation. I do this so I can keep all the media types under one entry. But now I see that the attachments can not be assigned an item type eg. I would like to add the video as a "Video Recording" Item Type so I can add the metadata to it, but this is not possible.

Is this the right process or should I be creating 3 different Item Types for each media type, 1 for my notes, 1 for the pdf document and 1 for the video recording, but then how do keep them together to the 1 Presentation.

Thanks and regards

adamsmith

I would only save one item -- the one you want to cite. This may vary -- in some cases you'll want to cite the slides, in some point people to the videorecording. But don't add metadata for its own sake. It's perfectly normal to have 2-3 different attachments on a single Zotero item.
Even if you do want separate items, I would definitely just attach notes to the relevant item, so you're looking at most at two separate items and those you can link via the "Related" tab.

bwiernik

In general, I would say to save this as a Presentation and attach your notes, the slides PDF, and the video all to the same item.