Upgrade StorageCreate item, with snapshot from link in selection
I am very excited to find Zotero! It may make my research/bibliography/provenance tasks much easier.
However, Zotero does not quite do what I need.
I frequently have to collect references to documents that exist only on the web. E.g. manuals for microprocessors (my field is computer architecture), from companies who do not always make paper versions available.
For example, Intel's website contains many manuals, on page http://www.intel.com/products/processor/manuals/.
I probably do not want to snapshot them all. But I do want to be able to select one of them, such as the text
Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual
Volume 1: Basic Architecture
Describes the architecture and programming environment of processors supporting IA-32 and Intel® 64 Architectures.
*Download
which contains a link, as shown by its HTML source code
<h3>Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual<br>Volume 1: Basic Architecture</h3>
<p>Describes the architecture and programming environment of processors supporting IA-32 and Intel® 64 Architectures.</p>
<ul><li><div class="rolloverlink"><a href="/Assets/PDF/manual/253665.pdf"><strong>Download</strong></a><div class="rolloverbody"><p><strong>File Type/Size: </strong>PDF 3.21MB</p></div></div></li></ul>
and do the following
a) create a web item
b) snapshot the file in the link within the selection and store/associate that with the item
c) take the selected text, and attach a note to the item
d) ideally, fabricate a name out of the selectred tedt - hard to do in general, but perhaps capture the selection and then let me edit out the dross. (Sometimes the link display text is the human readable name of the document; sometimes it is elsewhere in the selectyion, as here.)
Plus do all the usual good stuff for a reference:
1) record time captured
2) URL of the web page linking to the document
3) URL of the document linked to
etc.
This is very much like a combination of
* Save Link as Zotero Snapshot
* Add to Note from Selection
However, Zotero does not quite do what I need.
I frequently have to collect references to documents that exist only on the web. E.g. manuals for microprocessors (my field is computer architecture), from companies who do not always make paper versions available.
For example, Intel's website contains many manuals, on page http://www.intel.com/products/processor/manuals/.
I probably do not want to snapshot them all. But I do want to be able to select one of them, such as the text
Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual
Volume 1: Basic Architecture
Describes the architecture and programming environment of processors supporting IA-32 and Intel® 64 Architectures.
*Download
which contains a link, as shown by its HTML source code
<h3>Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual<br>Volume 1: Basic Architecture</h3>
<p>Describes the architecture and programming environment of processors supporting IA-32 and Intel® 64 Architectures.</p>
<ul><li><div class="rolloverlink"><a href="/Assets/PDF/manual/253665.pdf"><strong>Download</strong></a><div class="rolloverbody"><p><strong>File Type/Size: </strong>PDF 3.21MB</p></div></div></li></ul>
and do the following
a) create a web item
b) snapshot the file in the link within the selection and store/associate that with the item
c) take the selected text, and attach a note to the item
d) ideally, fabricate a name out of the selectred tedt - hard to do in general, but perhaps capture the selection and then let me edit out the dross. (Sometimes the link display text is the human readable name of the document; sometimes it is elsewhere in the selectyion, as here.)
Plus do all the usual good stuff for a reference:
1) record time captured
2) URL of the web page linking to the document
3) URL of the document linked to
etc.
This is very much like a combination of
* Save Link as Zotero Snapshot
* Add to Note from Selection