Information on how to make a web-site Zotero-friendly

banksiaboy

Hi,
I have been using GBIF to get research data-sets. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Biodiversity_Information_Facility

They provide some very nice facilities for generating and referencing datasets. The web pages for the datasets are beautiful. Here is one of my results: https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/download/0028738-200221144449610



If I try to import the metadata page for a dataset into Zotero, the result is a bit awful.

GBIF is a wonderfully helpful organization and is keen to fix this. I am struggling to find documentation on how to make web-publishing Zotero-friendly.

Can someone point me to an up-to-date best-practice guide please.

Cheers,
—Peter Goodall

adamsmith

If they follow the guidelines for metadata embedded in the page in this article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-019-0031-8 Zotero will pick that up pretty nicely (currently only the DublinCore ones, hopefully soon also the JSON-LD metadata).

(For the general question, see also here: https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/exposing_metadata, but the above guidelines were written in broad consultation with data repositories, metadata specialists, publishers, and several reference managers, so following them is a good idea anyway)

banksiaboy

Thanks Adam - will pass it on...

gbif

Thanks for this. As we're already doing JSON-LD for our datasets (mainly for Google Dataset Search), any idea when that might be a possibility?

adamsmith

I'd hope within 6 months, but hard to promise. @dstillman there was lots of movement on this for a while but nothing public this year -- any update on the generic import in general and JSON-LD import in particular?

dstillman

No current progress on this, I'm afraid. The combined generic translator depends on some larger changes to the translator architecture (async/await) that still need to be done.