CAPITALIZED titles (content) from import

Zorozero · July 12, 2022

Suddenly a lot of titles get CAPITALIZED while importing e. g. from ISBN search. Coincidence or method.. ?

Try 978-3-319-84738-2

Result: FOUNDATIONS OF QUANTUM THEORY: from classical concepts to operator algebras.

Try 036739037X

Result: QUANTUM COMPUTING DEVICES: principles, designs, and analysis.

Anyone can confirm or check this? Or is it a setting to be aware of?

dstillman · July 12, 2022

Those are just the titles on WorldCat:

https://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=results_page&q=isbn:9783319847382

https://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=results_page&q=isbn:036739037X

WorldCat data tends not to be very good, but it's used for ISBNs if data isn't available from better metadata sources.

Zorozero · July 12, 2022

Thanks @dstillman for explaining. So coincidence then.. submitting corrections to WorldCat isn't possible I guess?

dstillman · July 12, 2022

Someone else might know better, but I assume corrections would have to come from the institutions that submit data to them.

Any reports shouldn't mention Zotero, in any case. This data is just formatted that way on their site and shows up both on the page and in the metadata files (RIS, etc.) they offer.