Wrong author name from books.google.com

make
If I add a book from books.google.com a "Von" is always added to the first name of the first author. This is the german equivilant for "By", which seems to be handled correctly. As I changed the language in the google URL to en and then the entry was created correctly in Zotero. I haven't found anything about this issue on the web or documentation. And I have no idea which settings I could change to solve this problem.
  • make
    edited November 4, 2007
    Sorry I was wrong the error also occurs if I use the English google url. I was mislead in the first place since there was still the manually edited entry of the book in my bibliography.

    What is strange about this, is the fact that the English page is displayed but still "Von" is added to the first name of the author. You can try it yourself:

    http://books.google.com/books?id=xG2ZD55_BJAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=An+Embedded+Software+Primer&hl=en&output=html&sig=7OFEGK2FSN6mhe4M7pfoU4zOQgU

    http://books.google.com/books?id=xG2ZD55_BJAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=An+Embedded+Software+Primer&hl=de&output=html&sig=7OFEGK2FSN6mhe4M7pfoU4zOQgU
  • dstillman
    People outside Germany won't be able to replicate that—it looks like the Google Books translator does a fresh request for the item using its id, which would use the country-specific version of the site, and only "By " is stripped from the author string before processing. We should be able to come up with a fix, either by hard-coding various language-specific prefixes or by requesting against the English site (assuming they all have the same catalog).

    Ticket created. Thanks.
  • RintzeRintze
    edited December 13, 2008
    The ticket contains the comment "Not sure whether this is still a problem.". I just checked, and I can (still) reproduce the problem on the Dutch Google Books site: e.g., saving the book from http://books.google.nl/books?id=RuQAAAAACAAJ gives "Asimov, Door Isaac" as author (with "Door" meaning "By" in Dutch). Maybe this type of URL also works overseas.

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