coins issues

ejlynema
I'm attempting to provide COinS formatted data for import into Zotero on my site. I'm having trouble getting Zotero to import the 'Pages' element and the 'Repository' element in the Zotero display. I've included rft.tpages and rfr_id in the COinS metadata in an attempt to set these elements. Everything else (title author, series, publication date, etc.) is being imported fine. Is this a known issue? Am I using the wrong COinS data elements to import this data?

Example:
<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fcatalog.lib.ncsu.edu%3ANCSU+Libraries&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.btitle=Deforestation+and+land+use+in+the+Amazon&rft.au=Porro%2C+Roberto.&rft.au=Wood%2C+Charles+H.%2C+1945-&rft.date=c2002.&rft.isbn=0813024641&rft.tpages=385&rft_id=http://www2.lib.ncsu.edu/catalog/record/NCSU352429&rft.place=Gainesville+&rft.pub=University+Press+of+Florida&rft.genre=book">
</span>

Note: I am using the encoded ampersand in the actual code.
  • noksagt
    rft.tpages -> rft.pages
    repository is not currently collected.
  • ejlynema
    Interesting.

    rft.pages = "Start and end pages for parts of a book, i.e. "124-147". This can also be used for an unstructured pagination statement when data relating to pagination cannot be interpreted as a start-end pair, i.e. "A7, C4-9", "1-3,6". This data element includes the OpenURL 0.1 definition of "pages"."

    rft.tpages = "Total pages. Total pages is the largest recorded number of pages, if this can be determined. I.e., "ix, 392 p." would be recorded as "392" in tpages. This data element is usually available only for monographs (books and printed reports). In some cases, tpages may not be numeric, i.e. "F36"

    So I guess Zotero is assuming my book has start and end pages. Thanks for the tip. It is importing the Pages element now.

    See: http://alcme.oclc.org/openurl/servlet/OAIHandler/extension?verb=GetMetadata&metadataPrefix=mtx&identifier=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book
  • noksagt
    So I guess Zotero is assuming my book has start and end pages. Thanks for the tip. It is importing the Pages element now.
    Sort of--the meaning of the "pages" field in Zotero is not explicit & can refer to a range, a start page, or the total number of pages. I suppose that supporting 'tpages' in ContextObjects would be useful to those sites that do differentiate between these.

    Fortunately, the final page & the total number of pages is treated similarly in most cases, so I don't think your new COinS will be all that misleading to other applications.
  • dstillman
    Note that the lack of differentiation between pages and total pages in Zotero is a bug.
  • ejlynema
    Sorry. One last question.

    I tried to create a COinS span for an journal like such:

    <span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fcatalog.lib.ncsu.edu%3ANCSU+Libraries&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.jtitle=Computational+biology+and+chemistry.&rft.genre=journal&rft.issn=1476-9271 (print)&rft.date=c2003-&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fitsbox.lib.ncsu.edu%3A8080%2Fcatalog%2Frecord%2FNCSU353972&rft.place=Oxford+&rft.pub=Pergamon">

    But Zotero didn't detect it. Does it handle only COinS with rft_val_fmt = info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book?
  • noksagt
    Journal articles are supported, but I don't think that journals are. Is there even a zotero type for a journal as a whole?

    At first glance, your markup does seem to follow the OpenURL spec & is similar to what the COinS generator outputs and we are using with refbase (both of which fail to get parsed without article info). In refbase, we also emit MODS over unAPI to describe whole journals. These are imported into Zotero, but are incorrectly typed as "Journal Articles" (and have the journal's title where the article title is & are missing the journal title).

    Hopefully some of these issues with zotero will be fixed when hierarchical types are supported
  • ejlynema
    looks like Zotero will support this COinS / OpenURL if I include a rft.atitle element that has the 'article title'. Of course, this imports the citation as a Journal Article, which isn't really appropriate for a Journal itself.

    At this point, there is no Journal type for Zotero citations.
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