SpringerLink - New format conference paper pages

dr__martin · January 4, 2017

I work on the SpringerLink website and we’ve been updating some of our pages. Recently we changed the way that conference papers are displayed and we received a bit of feedback from a Zotero user to say that Zotero was no longer recognising the article type as “conference paper”.

We’re actually putting more metadata in the source now, so we’re wondering what Zotero was looking for before to identify the article type which we’re not doing anymore?

Here’s the source for the old style page:

view-source:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/BFb0109667?view=classic

And here’s the same conference paper in our new layout:

view-source:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/BFb0109667

We’d probably suggest looking in the dataLayer’s Event Category on the new look pages to identify the article type, but this is something that only exists on our newer pages (currently only journal articles and conference papers), not the old ones.

adamsmith · January 4, 2017

does this depend on who I'm getting access through? Best I can tell, both classic and new view look exactly the same for me (both as source and as page) and are recognized as book chapters by Zotero.

But this item doesn't seem like it's a conference paper. I don't see any information on a conference and you also have this as CHAP in the RIS.

FWIW, though, Zotero decides between book section and conference paper based on the presence of //meta[@name="citation_conference_title"], but we're happy to change this and could also run tests for multiple possibilities if needed.

edit: and thanks for being in touch about this! Much appreciated.

dr__martin · January 4, 2017

Ah, it appears I've picked a really bad example (that'll teach me for using something we used as an example of other bugs... you may notice its the some one as in this comment https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/comment/265071#Comment_265071). Looking at the xml for that paper it's missing the elements we needed to create that meta tag. Although there's been a real effort to improve our metadata some of our older papers do suffer from this.

Here's a better example:

http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-10643-9_10

But both our old and new look pages include the same `meta name="citation_conference_title"` tag for this paper. Perhaps the feedback we received wasn't accurate and Zotero can identify the same conference paper on the old and new pages alike, but is not able to identify _all_ conference papers because there can be missing tags (when we haven't got that information to show).

Zotero could continue to use that tag as it will work for anything newly published, but looking in the dataLayer for 'Event Category':'Conference Paper' might correctly identify more content.

adamsmith · January 4, 2017

OK, thanks, we'll look at using the event layer -- but just to confirm, the new example is corretly detected and saved as a conference paper in both the new and the classic view.

zuphilip · January 4, 2017

@dr__martin Was the report from the Zotero user recently or could the problem also be weeks ago? There was a recent change (Nov '16) of the metadata in your website by `@eudactus` and some discussion on GitHub: https://github.com/zotero/translators/issues/1187 .

dr__martin · January 5, 2017

@adamsmith I'm not a zotero user myself, but we haven't changed that particular element, so if it was picking up the article type correctly before, it should now. I did try and use the Chrome plugin to import an example into a Zotero library, but the Translator didn't seem to recognise the page (Chrome Version 55.0.2883.95 (64-bit), macOS Sierra 10.12.1, Zotero 4.0.29.15).

@zuphilip That was a different element of metadata, but yes we got that too and now include the publication date in the source in the same way we were for the older pages. You should see something like:

meta name="citation_publication_date" content="1998"/

or

meta name="citation_publication_date" content="2009/12/9"/