What Metadata Standard should I use for tags, urls etc.?

akahl
Hello together,

I am exporting book-metadata with COinS to Zotero. Unfortunately, COinS offers only a very limited set of fields.
For now I would like most to export Subject Headings as tags and urls for the books.

Which standard do you recommend to use for that purpose? (I do not want to write a scraper or something similar, I prefer using application independent standard formats)

Thanks for any recommendations, hints, ideas.
  • sean
    COinS will already do what you want with Zotero. For each subject heading, you'll want to generate an rft.subject parameter. For your book's URL, use rft_id. Make sure you urlencode both parameters' values.
  • akahl
    Thanks sean,
    I now implemented a test-rft.subject and rft.identifier.
    Unfortuately, Zotero does not recognize the two. I use Firefox 3 with Zotero 1.0.6.
    Here's my COinS-Span (rft.subject & rft.identifier are at the very end just before rft.year):
    <span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rfr_id=&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Goethe+and+Palladio%3B+Goethe%27s+study+of+the+relationship+between+art+and+nature%2C+leading+through+architecture+to+the+discovery+of+the+metamorphosis+of+plants&rft.isbn=1-58420-036-7+&rft.issn=&rft.au=Lowe%2C+David+Goethe%2C+Johann+Wolfgang+%EF%BF%BDvon&rft.place=Great+Barrington%2C+MA&rft.pub=Lindisfarne+Books&rft.edition=1.+ed.&rft.subject=testsubject&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.testurl.com&rft.year=2005" ></span>
  • akahl
    ... In the forum, the ampersands are not URLencoded any more. This is due to the forum, they are encoded in my site.
  • akahl
    ok, I have now a working import of the URL, but still no tags. I found this page by coincident before, which was inspiring my use of rft.identifier:
    http://www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-wikipedia-perfect-together/

    Automatic taggig is turned on and the mentioned URL successfully imports 1 tag: News. So I am still wondering how to get my subjects imported.
    I even tried the same Tag as my example-page has, News, without success.

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