Upgrade StorageComposer as primary author
I want to suggest that, for audio recordings, composers become the new primary creator type. Classical recording citations include the composer only when they intend to list under composer in the bibliography. Otherwise they leave the composer out. Recordings in other genres also tend to omit the composer, as far as I know. Anybody can either second me or give me a specific counterexample.
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Composer - Author (primary creator)
Performer - Editor (so that it is moved to the front if the Composer field is absent)
Words By - Translator
I am not worried about technically incorrect phrases such as "ed. Conductor" appearing as a result of this mapping. I will need to edit every footnote and bibliography entry to put the proper role titles in. I do want all non-Contributor creators to appear in the citation, however, in their proper positions, before or after the title, and with the proper one inverted.
3. Richard Strauss, _Don Quixote_, with Emanuel Feuermann (violoncello) and the Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Eugene Ormandy, recorded February 24, 1940, Biddulph LAB 042, 1991, compact disc.
4. Billie Holiday, vocal performance of āIām a Fool to Want You,ā by Joel Herron, Frank Sinatra, and Jack Wolf, recorded February 20, 1958, with Ray Ellis, on Lady in Satin, Columbia CL 1157, 33ā rpm.
i.e. the first one has the composer first, the second one the performer.
For what it's worth, what is a "primary creator" is defined in the citation style, so it would be possible to just flip this around in a custom citation style.
What I am concerned right now with is knowing which Creator field names correspond to which global field names so that I know how I can get all creators to appear in the citation. I believe that you have a higher chance of coming close to the mark in all citation styles at once if you use only those variables that are in the namespace at https://bitbucket.org/bdarcus/csl-schema/src/855dcc00cba7/csl-variables.rnc .
Zotero.Cite.System._zoteroNameMap = {"author":"author",
"bookAuthor":"container-author",
"composer":"composer",
"editor":"editor",
"interviewer":"interviewer",
"recipient":"recipient",
"seriesEditor":"collection-editor",
"translator":"translator"
}
Composer has been mapped in the trunk since April 8, 2011. Haven't checked if this made it into Zotero 2.1.x, but it should be in 3.0.
This latter bit of info is available from the Zotero API as well: http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/server_api/write_api#get_valid_creator_types_for_an_item_type
Furthermore, the XML for the "Turabian (Full Note with Bibliography)" style does NOT include the word "Performer." Yet the creators labeled "Performer" are at the head of the citation. Why is that?
"author":"author",
"bookAuthor":"container-author",
"composer":"composer",
"editor":"editor",
"interviewer":"interviewer",
"recipient":"recipient",
"seriesEditor":"collection-editor",
"translator":"translator"
}
chrome://zotero/content/xpcom/cite.js
I don't see it there on the trunk anymore, but if you're on 2.10 that should still work. doesn't mention performer, though.
But that won't help until you dig up the mapping of IDs and human-readable names.
For any given item type:
The creator role that appears first in the drop-down list is mapped as "Author."
Second, "Contributor"
Third, "Editor"
Fourth, "Series Editor."
Fifth, "Translator."