Zotero takes translator as an author if imported from library

Cognitarian · September 19, 2017

Hi,

Go to one of Polish university library and click on zotero import plug in in safari mac osx and see that zotero takes translator of the book as an author so the book has more authors then the original. I do not know whether it is a bug in the library data or zotero importing feature. Please check it out clicking link below: it directs to Polish edition of Metaphors we live by (Lakoff and Johnson 1980) translated by Krzeszowski in 1988 who would appear in zotero as a third author instead of translator. I can easily switch the "third author" to translator, but I have hundreds of books like that in my list. Hope I'm clear and the problem is not troublesome:
https://uam-hip.pfsl.poznan.pl/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=15LA807179T39.141450&profile=bu-uam&uri=link=3100007~!4721599~!3100001~!3100002&aspect=basic_search&menu=search&ri=2&source=~!buam75&term=Metafory+w+naszym+życiu+/&index=ALTITLE

LiborA · September 19, 2017

I am not sure if this should be recognized by a translator. I had the same problem when I imported data about books in my bookshelf from the Czech National Library. I had to manually change the role of illustrators/translators. It's not so hard (I have more than one thousand books), but you must not forget to do it directly after import.

zuphilip · September 19, 2017

The translator here looks for the MARC data, i.e. https://uam-hip.pfsl.poznan.pl/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=15LA807179T39.141450&profile=bu-uam&uri=link=3100007~!4721599~!3100001~!3100002&aspect=basic_search&menu=search&ri=2&source=~!buam75&term=Metafory+w+naszym+życiu+/&index=ALTITLE&fullmarc=true and the creators are saved in the fields 100 and 700. The library can use MARC relation codes (subfield $4) which we can then make sure to recognize, but we can't recognized all localized terms for the relations. As you see, we don't have any MARC relation codes here.

Cognitarian · September 26, 2017

Thanks, how about interpreting " Tł.” in the field 700 as a marker of the translator and than taking that as a translator, but not the author of the book? it’s consistent.

adamsmith · September 26, 2017

The problem with the $e subfield is that it doesn't follow a controlled vocabulary, i.e. we'd have to add terms for all sorts of languages and different acronyms/terms. subfield $4 is standardized (http://www.loc.gov/marc/relators/relaterm.html).

Not sure we want to go down that route -- it's messy.