Import from CSL JSON ignores name particles and suffixes

nickbart · December 16, 2013

When importing CSL JSON, for example from the citeproc-js test suite file name_namepartAffixes.txt:

[
    {
        "author": [
            {
                "dropping-particle": "de", 
                "family": "Fontaine", 
                "given": "Jean", 
                "non-dropping-particle": "La", 
                "suffix": "III"
            }
        ], 
        "id": "ITEM-1", 
        "type": "book"
    }
]

"dropping-particle", "non-dropping-particle", and "suffix" are silently ignored.

"comma-suffix", when present, is ignored, too.

adamsmith · December 16, 2013

Not sure to what extent this was ever intended to work on import - principally CSL JSON is an export format for ref managers to communicate with citeproc-js.
Zotero would have to put those back together into its regular fields, which sure, could be done, but since pretty much no one actually uses CSL JSON as a data exchange format I'm not sure if it's worth the time to code.

nickbart · December 16, 2013

Well, a few people using pandoc, including myself, seem to be interested, in particular since the output from pandoc's excellent biblio2yaml can easily be converted to CSL JSON, offering an interesting alternative import path from bib(la)tex. See http://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=&hl=en#!topic/pandoc-discuss/gq0rRq4oiro

adamsmith · December 16, 2013

fair enough - I don't think there'd be any objections if someone wanted to submit a patch (I'd have to look for the code snippet, but it's in the function itemFromCSLJSON ), otherwise I doubt it's going to be high priority at this time.

nickbart · December 17, 2013

When importing from CSL JSON, is there any reason why Zotero does not accept the valid CSL variable "title-short", while it does accept "shortTitle"?

Rintze · December 17, 2013

Answered here: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/pandoc-discuss/gq0rRq4oiro/GyutnLMRP1gJ

(the easiest solution would be to ask that all CSL processors map both the "title-short" and "shortTitle" (for legacy reasons) JSON fields to the "title-short" CSL variable)