Problem with fields with kubikat

liladude
Hello everybody,
I am fairly new at Zotero and I was checking the compatibility with the kubikat catalogue https://aleph.mpg.de/. Even if the Connector can easily save the data, even for groups of records, some information are not properly stored. If you have a book chapter or a journal article, no information about the journal is stored while it appear on the site record (i.e. In:...). Is this a problem on how the datas are stored or a missing link between Zotero and Kubikat?
Best regards
Elisa
  • bwiernik
    Can you give the URL for a specific item that fails to save correctly?
  • adamsmith
    aleph has session IDs so we'd need a catalog and search term or title of a work you're using.

    Generally speaking, library catalogs fare poorly with cataloging chapters and journal articles (because the underlying data format wasn't designed for them), but we can certainly take a look.
  • liladude
    Thank you for your answers. This is a link to an article http://aleph.mpg.de/F?func=direct&doc_number=023011360&local_base=kub01
    Hopefully they will improve the connections soon!
  • adamsmith
    Yes, I'm afraid we won't be able to do much about this. The relevant information for the journal is in fields designated as "Notes" in the cataloging standard (the 59x MARC fields in case someone is interested in the technical details), so everyone is going to do this differently and we can't really import this reliably. Sorry about that.
  • liladude
    Thank you for this information, since I know that they are upgrading to a new version, I will report to the developers and see if there is room for improvement or if this is already planned!
  • adamsmith
    Technical: If the (new) catalog supported other metadata formats (e.g. MODS or even RIS), ideally linked in the metaheader using link rel="alternate" (see https://github.com/zotero/translators/issues/77 ) that would be super helpful
  • liladude
    I will report it, if they don't know already!
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