Minimum rquirements book metadata?
Hi.
*very* new to Zotero, although I have previously used EndNote.
I'm trying to understand the minimum metadata support or other requirements for a library system so that the Zotero FireFox connector will recognise that a search result for a book that I'd like to import is being displayed.
Currently, this doesn't happen with my college library system, which is frustrating, although it works just fine on Amazon, which was a debug action suggested in another forum post. Hopefully I can try and get the output improved...
I can supply the web page that results from a search if that's helpful - can't see how to attach it to this post though.
Thanks,
Youra.
*very* new to Zotero, although I have previously used EndNote.
I'm trying to understand the minimum metadata support or other requirements for a library system so that the Zotero FireFox connector will recognise that a search result for a book that I'd like to import is being displayed.
Currently, this doesn't happen with my college library system, which is frustrating, although it works just fine on Amazon, which was a debug action suggested in another forum post. Hopefully I can try and get the output improved...
I can supply the web page that results from a search if that's helpful - can't see how to attach it to this post though.
Thanks,
Youra.
I have also encountered this problem with my college library system. I believe that this is a problem with the databases that colleges have subscribed to.
What I regularly do is to export my search results in any of the formats supported by zotero (e.g., ".ris", "bibtex" etc). Thereafter, I can import the output into into zotero.
This works fine all the time.
but for a lot of sites, this is site/catalog specific, so we'd need a URL of what you're looking at to say more.
@boyivictor: Good approach, but there's no obvious save or export function I can see on the system - I'll check with library support when they are working again.
@adamsmith: The system my college uses is called "Heritage Cirqa" - there's a publicly accessible demo system available at:
http://ct2.cirqahosting.com/HeritageScripts/Hapi.dll/search1
using a reader code of R0009 (login box at top right of the page).
Any pointers/help gratefully received.