Support for importing RIS via connector
I work at UNC Libraries, and we're making some improvements to our catalog. We have some incorrect data in our COinS and RIS formats.
For a number of reasons it'd be much easier if we could stop supporting COinS entirely and just fix our RIS files.
On a dev version of the catalog, we removed COinS as a test. But on that test, the Zotero connector / browser extension doesn't recognize the RIS file at all. Should the connector be detecting our RIS file? it's included like this:
(you won't be able to load that RIS file, it's IP-limited)
I'm very much not a software developer - I've looked at documentation but can't find a definitive answer to this. Thanks for any insight.
For a number of reasons it'd be much easier if we could stop supporting COinS entirely and just fix our RIS files.
On a dev version of the catalog, we removed COinS as a test. But on that test, the Zotero connector / browser extension doesn't recognize the RIS file at all. Should the connector be detecting our RIS file? it's included like this:
<link rel="alternate" title="ris" type="application/x-research-info-systems" href="https://discovery.trln.org/catalog/UNCb1774078.ris" />
(you won't be able to load that RIS file, it's IP-limited)
I'm very much not a software developer - I've looked at documentation but can't find a definitive answer to this. Thanks for any insight.
That said -- you're using a blacklight discovery layer, right? Other blacklight catalogs like Stanford and Columbia have marcxml or mods in the alternate link -- would you be able to do that? With that in place, we could just enable UNC in the blacklight translator and it should work great.
If that's not an option, we could also look at enabling RIS in the blacklight translator
* since blacklight doesn't have a particularly distinctive URL pattern, we add catalogs individually to the regular expression for sites on which the translator runs.
One option would be to encourage use of a
data-*
attribute (e.g., "data-zotero-item-type") on the<link>
to communicate the Zotero item type of the linked resource, or "multiple". It'd be Zotero-specific, of course, but it's optional — if a site didn't include it, Zotero users would just see a folder icon if no other translator triggered. And lots of sites include buttons or other export options for other tools.Edit: oh right didn't get there above, but what I say still holds. With marcxml or mods in rel we'd just be able to add the unc catalog to the list in blacklight and that'd give you the best support