Ensuring DOIs and DOIs

drjermy
I found that in older versions of some journals (Radiology and Radiographics), where a DOI doesn't exist for the article, my Zotero entries have things like "VL - 154". My custom style tries to create a link back to the DOI where a DOI exists and thus, creates an erroneous link.

My questions:
How do I do a simple check in the style cls to say "if DOI starts with '10.' then show the DOI, else create a link to the URL instead"

Thanks,

Jeremy
  • adamsmith
    you can't - the if functions of .csl are pretty limited.
  • drjermy
    Ah... anybody else got any suggestions about how to not render the erroneous DOI link.

    I presume that the journals in questions are in error rather than Zotero pulling out that data and putting it into the DOI box.
  • noksagt
    I presume that the journals in questions are in error rather than Zotero pulling out that data and putting it into the DOI box.
    This very well could be (there is a lot of garbage out there), but isn't necessarily the case. And, in this particular example, Zotero should be able to work-around the broken site (because it could check that it is a valid DOI before it adds it to the record). Do you have URLs to some of the bad entries?
  • drjermy
    1. http://radiology.rsna.org/content/174/3/751.abstract gives the DOI of "VL - 174" which I presume stands for volume lable 174 (it's out of volume 174)

    2. http://radiology.rsnajnls.org/content/154/3/687.abstract gives a DOI of "VL - 154" - it's from volume 154

    3. http://radiographics.rsna.org/content/10/1/41.abstract is a different journal from the same publishing house with the DOI of "VL - 10" - it's unsurprisingly from volume 10.

    I think they have just done this for all entries without DOIs becuase latter entries work fine.
  • noksagt
    edited August 12, 2009
    Well, the site has empty 'N1' tags & empty RIS tags aren't really good behavior. However, the Zotero high wire translator should be fixed such that it doesn't trip over empty tags.

    Ticket created:
    https://www.zotero.org/trac/ticket/1539
  • ajlyon
    edited June 9, 2010
    I've applied noksagt's changes. Go to http://github.com/ajlyon/zotero-bits/raw/master/Highwire 2.0.js and save the file to the translators directory of your Zotero data directory (http://www.zotero.org/support/zotero_data).

    If this works for people, I'll post it to zotero-dev for discussion and get it out to clients.
  • ajlyon
    edited June 9, 2010
    My first version of this patch broke all DOIs. The updated version, at the same URL above, does not. Comments are welcome.

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