Problem w/ RAMBI - Index of Articles on Jewish Studies (The Jewish National and University Library)

amos26
When importing from RAMBI, the Index of Articles on Jewish Studies (The Jewish National and University Library) [http://aleph.nli.org.il/F?local_base=rmb01] by clicking on the button for downloading multiple records, the records downloaded only give the author and title but no other bibliographical data. Using Zotero 3.08 with Firefox 14.0.1 (Windows 7, 32-bit).
  • adamsmith
    Zotero doesn't import article information from MARC records (which are the bibliographic data RAMBI is based on).
    This would be a lot of work to code, though probably worth it, but I doubt it's going to happen very fast.

    [technical note:
    Simon - any reason this isn't in the marc translator?
    As I see it Zotero should read Marc field 773 as the parent item. and should be able to use the 7th field of the leader to distinguish journal articles and chapter).]
  • amos26
    Thank you for your speedy response! Do you have a handy link that breaks down the different kinds of records out there / which ones Zotero can import? I have read the wikipedia article on MARC standards.
  • adamsmith
    could you specify what type of information you're looking for more precisely?
    Zotero will obviously import journal articles in a variety of formats - including RIS, bibtex, bibliontology RDF etc.

    If you want to know the details of the Marc translator, though, the only source I can point you to is the source code:
    https://github.com/zotero/translators/blob/master/MARC.js
  • amos26
    edited August 23, 2012
    I am just curious about what different formats are used by major libraries today.

    Thank you for the github link!
  • adamsmith
    Very few libraries have their own periodical database, so most traditional library catalogs don't include periodical articles and MARC works just fine.

    Some of the more modern varieties - aquabrowser, primo etc. - do include links to articles and Zotero needs to be adjusted individually for each of them. E.g. it reads the PNX format for primo catalogs, it relies on (imperfect) COinS data for aquabrowser etc.

    For article databases, Zotero has individual translators for (almost) every one it supports, mostly based on RIS, Bibtex, or citation data embedded in the page (e.g. google/highwire).
  • adamsmith
    OK, basic support for articles is now implemented. RAMBI doesn't put a lot of useful data in the 773 field, so all we get is the right item type (i.e. book section or journal title), the publication title, the date range, and, for journal articles, the year of publication. But that's a nice step up already.
  • amos26
    Great! It's a very helpful step up! Thank you so much for the hard work and for the update in the forum.
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