Does not recognize a particular DOI

martahawaii
Every time I try a Doi for a specific academic journal (10.1558/calico.v32i1.26142) I get an error message "Zotero could not find a record for the specified identifier"
Is there anything I can do. I use this journal very often.
Thank you.
  • noksagt
    edited April 18, 2015
    That DOI does not resolve and likely has not been submitted to CrossRef yet. Bug the publisher.

    See, e.g. https://www.quora.com/Why-do-the-DOIs-on-certain-journal-sites-not-resolve-for-any-of-their-articles
  • ekansa
    Hi,

    Actually, this may be a bigger problem. DOIs sometimes get assigned to works that don't get included in CrossRef. I'm thinking of data repositories or code repositories. For instance, I'm testing a new version of Open Context. We publish archaeological data and mint DOIs with EZID. Here's an example:

    http://opencontext.dainst.org/projects/81204AF8-127C-4686-E9B0-1202C3A47959

    Zotero does not like the DOI in this resource even though it is valid and this http://dx.doi.org/10.6078/M7PC3083 resolves appropriately.
  • aurimas
    That DOI is registered with DataCite and we don't currently scrape metadata from them. http://doi.crossref.org/doiRA?doi=10.6078/M7PC3083
  • ekansa
    Understood, but it would be nice if the Zotero client would be a bit more forgiving and capture the bibliographic information for this resource and not only throw an error.
  • aurimas
    Like I said, we don't currently scrape data from DataCite, so, besides alerting the user that metadata could not be retrieved, there's nothing that we can do at this point. The metadata is not available on CrossRef, which is where all of the DOI information is currently retrieve from.
  • ekansa
    Again, understood. However in this case, Open Context is providing the metadata (in the HTML) independent of CrossRef or DataCite. Can't Zotero use those metadata?
  • adamsmith
    1) You can tell Zotero to use the embedded metadata instead if you're using Firefox: Right-click the URL bar icon and and select "Embedded Metadata". This will a) become more easily visible/accessible in the next Zotero version and b) we're generally working on ways to make this run smoother overall, though that may take some time

    2) Zotero just doesn't recognize datacite DOIs when scraping them off webpages. We do use DataCite when you use "Add by Identifier," i.e. the magic wand item.
  • aurimas
    But looking at this closer, Chrome is actually picking up the COinS metadata from the page for me, so I'm not entirely clear on how you're trying to import. Are you using the URL bar icon when on http://opencontext.org/projects/81204AF8-127C-4686-E9B0-1202C3A47959 ? Does it say "Save to Zotero (DOI)" for you when you hover over it?
  • adamsmith
    I get DOI and EM on
    http://opencontext.dainst.org/projects/81204AF8-127C-4686-E9B0-1202C3A47959

    and COinS and DOI on
    http://opencontext.org/projects/81204AF8-127C-4686-E9B0-1202C3A47959
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