Translator request University of Melbourne catalogue

margot · August 12, 2008

I would like to make a request for a translator for the University of Melbourne Library catalogue. It is not currently supported by Zotero, which makes it difficult to reccommend that students use it.

dstillman · August 12, 2008

The University of Melbourne library uses InnoPAC, which is certainly supported by Zotero. I'm able to save items from http://cat.lib.unimelb.edu.au/ without trouble.

If you're not getting the URL bar icon on the site, see Troubleshooting Translator Issues.

margot · August 13, 2008

Thank you, Dan, for your response. I think the problem my students are reporting is not consistent. Apparently it works sometimes and sometimes it doesn't. It is not easy to isolate what the exact contexts are. I tried a few searches and this is what I found:

For instance if we try an *exact* title search like
"On history and other essays"

We get the result, and the URL icon (in the shape of a folder) is there, but we get the "Cannot save item" message
http://cat.lib.unimelb.edu.au/search/t?SEARCH=on+history+and+other+essays&sortdropdown=-&searchscope=30

However, is we do a *broader* title search, like
"On history"
and then click on the "On history and other essays" title, we get the book icon and saves it without problems.
http://cat.lib.unimelb.edu.au/search/ton+history/ton+history/1,3,8,B/frameset&FF=ton+history+and+other+essays&1,1,/indexsort=-

Comparable problems appear when searching by author.
The most consistent one is when there is only one record for that particular author.

Exmples are search by author=
Opere
http://cat.lib.unimelb.edu.au/search/a?SEARCH=opere&sortdropdown=-&searchscope=30

Donowitz, leigh
http://cat.lib.unimelb.edu.au/search/a?SEARCH=donowitz,+leigh&sortdropdown=-&searchscope=30

Chopin, Isabelle
http://cat.lib.unimelb.edu.au/search/a?SEARCH=chopin,+isabelle&sortdropdown=-&searchscope=30

I hope this clarifies things a bit. Thank you for your help.

Acrymble · August 13, 2008

I've seen that before.

The problem is likely that when you search and only come up with 1 result, the webpage brings up the book info rather than a search results page, but it creates a dynamic URL that fits the format of a search results page.

The translator in question likely uses the URL to determine whether or not it is looking at a search results page or a single entry page and gets confused.