Upgrade StorageItem Type for Engineering Standards
I believe that Zotero needs to have an Item Type for "Engineering Standards".
Such as ASTM, NACE, ANSI, European EN, ISO, API etc.
And there should be a related Item for "Recommended Practices".
See NACE for examples of the difference between the two.
Both Types are similar:
Title (usually includes a date)
Organization
Reference Number
Date
At the moment I do not see any good way to enter a Standard.
The closest is to call it a Book Section but that's not really correct.
In addition, I think it would be vary useful to have a translator for each type of standard.
I've read about the problems with importing an ASTM standard and tried to use the recommended translator for it, but it didn't work for me.
There is not really a single Creator, it is done by a Committee.
To put the Committee as Creator is not adding value, rather use the Organization field.
In practice, any standard could be traced by:
Organization
Number
Date
Title (optional)
The IEEE style guide recommends the following:
Standards Basic Format:
[1] Title of Standard, Standard number, date.
Examples:
[1] IEEE Criteria for Class IE Electric Systems, IEEE Standard 308, 1969.
[2] Letter Symbols for Quantities, ANSI Standard Y10.5-1968.
Thanks for considering this, and thanks very much for your efforts in supporting Zotero.
Alan Jarvis
Such as ASTM, NACE, ANSI, European EN, ISO, API etc.
And there should be a related Item for "Recommended Practices".
See NACE for examples of the difference between the two.
Both Types are similar:
Title (usually includes a date)
Organization
Reference Number
Date
At the moment I do not see any good way to enter a Standard.
The closest is to call it a Book Section but that's not really correct.
In addition, I think it would be vary useful to have a translator for each type of standard.
I've read about the problems with importing an ASTM standard and tried to use the recommended translator for it, but it didn't work for me.
There is not really a single Creator, it is done by a Committee.
To put the Committee as Creator is not adding value, rather use the Organization field.
In practice, any standard could be traced by:
Organization
Number
Date
Title (optional)
The IEEE style guide recommends the following:
Standards Basic Format:
[1] Title of Standard, Standard number, date.
Examples:
[1] IEEE Criteria for Class IE Electric Systems, IEEE Standard 308, 1969.
[2] Letter Symbols for Quantities, ANSI Standard Y10.5-1968.
Thanks for considering this, and thanks very much for your efforts in supporting Zotero.
Alan Jarvis
https://github.com/ajlyon/zotero-bits/issues/52
That looks very good.
I suggest you add a provision for a Draft standard.
Quite frequently a Draft is issued and circulated for comment before being adopted.
I am willing to help where I can.
If you want someone to review a draft for this I am willing.
Alan
I couldn't agree with @WarthogARJ no more , is this project still working?
It's quite an important category for engineering and physical science.
Here's a good example of ways to do it:http://instr.iastate.libguides.com/c.php?g=49430&p=318487
I asked this question in 2012. And it's 2018 now.
Perhaps you could have a "Custom" user-made type for Zotero?
It'\s nice to be able to use Zotero as an archive for documents, and any engineer will definitely have hundreds of standards.
And it would be REALLY nice if there was a way in Zotero to import standards, at least from the main engineering ones. You could handle a large number of them with the following:
EN
ISO
ASTM
ANSI
NACE
IEEE
NIST
SAE
OSHA
After all, they are STANDARDS, so the meta-data is STANDARDIZED...:-}
It says when Zotero 5 is out.
It's out now.
But this has been an issue for at least 6 years.
Can't we get a simple fix?
Like how about a Custom "Item Type"?
That an individual could configure themselves?
Number, Date, Title), it would be useful to add Edition. And many standards also have an ISBN.