Pdf with incorrect metadata

whiterteeth
I am on ECHR case database site. I search and obtain the case I want. I am given the option to download pdf. I click on their pdf button. It downloads the correct case in pdf format but goes on to download completely wrong metadata. I've tried it several times and with different cases and get the same result. Help please.
  • mronkko
    The PDF metadata retrieval is not bullet proof. You need provide a link to the page that you are talking about to get a better response.
  • adamsmith
    for law cases it will hardly ever work, but we shouldn't get false positives that often - what's the URL of the ECHR case site?
  • whiterteeth
    Thank you both for your response. The link is:

    http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/sites/eng/Pages/search.aspx#{%22fulltext%22:[%22A%22,%22B%20and%20C%20v%20Ireland%22],%22documentcollectionid%22:[%22COMMITTEE%22,%22DECISIONS%22,%22COMMUNICATEDCASES%22,%22CLIN%22,%22ADVISORYOPINIONS%22,%22REPORTS%22,%22RESOLUTIONS%22]}

    When I click on their pdf I get the pdf of the case I want but when it is retrieving the metadata it gives an entirely different case. I downloaded A, B and C v Ireland and got metadata on Sejdic & Finci v Bosnia ....
  • aurimas
    Zotero tries to find metadata for PDFs by looking for a DOI and if unsuccessful, by looking for some sentences from the PDF on Google Scholar.

    In your case the PDF does not contain a DOI and is not indexed by Google Scholar, so it should not return any metadata. However, because of a long string of very short lines in the PDF, Zotero was producing some very weak queries to Google Scholar and picking up that false positive article you are referring to. This will be fixed.

    Additionally, with the above issue fixed, you still get a false positive, because there is a review of that case that contains a couple verbatim quotes. We'll try to fix that false positive as well.

    Unfortunately for you, even with the above fixes, you will not be able to retrieve metadata directly from the PDF, but at least you will not have incorrect metadata.

    Depending on how popular the HUDOC website is (I have no clue), it might be worth writing a translator for it. The only problem is that it seems to use a lot of AJAX, which complicates this quite a bit.
  • whiterteeth
    Thank you so much for your help and explanation. I'm not a techie. I'm 72 and just in the final year of a Masters. Keeping myself active. I'll have a look at Google Scholar and see what I can dig up. Again thank you.
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