Chicago-like custom style showing usage rights

kfeuerherm

I would like to be able to display usage rights for media items on a WordPress site using the ZotPress plug-in. It occurred to me that one way to do this would be to take an existing style (one or the other of the Chicago styles) and add that information into the bibliography, where it exists.

I tinkered with the style editor at https://editor.citationstyles.org and looked at creating a macro with a conditional to test this, but I don't see any option to check the "rights" field. Is this possible at all/a current limitation?

If so, I'd be interested in an alternative recommendation. The new information should display the name of the license and a link to where it can be viewed.

Thanks!

bwiernik

The Rights field isn’t currently available in citation styles. The citation style language Zotero has added a ‘license’ variable for this use case in CSL 1.0.2. That has just been released, but hasn’t yet started to make its way into styles or Zotero yet.

For the moment, I think it should work if you enter this information in Extra like this:
license: Rights information.

Then, you could edit the style file to add the license variable.

kfeuerherm

Great, I was thinking the same thing about the Extra field, and did some tinkering.

One issue I have found (not a showstopper in the short term) is that if I include a URL, it does not end up hyperlinked on the WordPress end. On the other hand, if I manually include HTML for the hyperlink, the HTML does not take effect but rather ends up as text on the site.

Is there a trick to this?

Thanks for the tip on the license variable. I will keep my eye on this.

bwiernik

That would be a question for the Zotpress developer or Zotpress support forums.

kfeuerherm

Ok. I was not sure which software was interpreting URLs, Zotero or ZotPress. I shall do that.