A "Needs review" category like in Mendeley (read/unread sorting)
This would be a great workflow improvement
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I agree with you - tags fulfill this purpose. I have a tag for "must read", but the Mendeley "needs review" category is applied automatically, not manually. It searches out the new references for those with missing/incorrect information and alerts you to them, so you can go through each one and make sure the reference is correct.
IH-pol is right: it is a great workflow improvement, as you don't have to manually add the tag to every reference. Perhaps a workaround would be to offer the option to automatically add a tag to every new reference imported (For example, every time a new reference is added to the library, tag it with "needs review").
I actually like that idea. I wouldn't want everything imported tagged as new (Frank actually had an add-on that did that, I believe), that just seems silly.
Given that over-tagging also has performance effects, we shouldn't overdo it for that reason, too.
Right. The "needs review" is applied when it appears that fields are missing (hence why I have a saved search for journals that do not have a DOI or URL) and/or Mendeley is unsure about the quality/accuracy of the data. I think it would be great for Zotero to implement such a thing. Obviously you wouldn't need it for every new reference, but Zotero could look at the most important fields (author, year, title, page, volume, issue, ISBN) used for references and make a judgment based on that.
I do carefully review all my references, but its not uncommon for me to stumble upon a journal and then import 20 or even 50+ new articles that I'm looking forward to reading. With large-scale imports, it's inevitable that some problems will pop up.
Dan, it would be a permanent tag, just a tag like Zotero already has. It's applied to those that have questionable metadata. After review, if the user is satisfied that the metadata is correct, they can remove the tag and go about their business.
OTOH, if the algorithm is complex and takes a while to execute _and_ we want users to be able to see problematic items as they browse their library (which is probably reasonable), then marking the items somehow may be beneficial. The marking doesn't have to be a tag though and it really shouldn't matter to the user what the marking is as long as they can control it.
In other words, while I'm all for handling this intelligently, it needs to be possible to somehow mark an item as reviewed.