Erroneous importation of nbib citation as video recording

chronicidal
I exported a Pubmed search to nbib format and imported it into Zotero. I found that the references that had the publication type of Video-Audio Media were imported as Video Recording rather than Journal Article. This was problematic as the fields for Video Recording did not recognize the rest of the data, such as journal name, publication year, and so on. These metadata would get dumped into one field so even if I changed the publication type in Zotero, it wouldn't flow into the right place.

I was able to work around this by editing the nbib file in Notepad++, searching and bookmarking all lines with "PT - Video-Audio Media", and deleting these, and then importing into Zotero.
  • DWL-SDCA
    Please know that for the past year or so PubMed includes videos that are released as journal "articles". If you follow the DOI to the publishers' sites you will see a static graphic that is a link to the video. Often, perhaps usually, there is no abstract that describes the video contents. Sometimes PubMed metadata says they are journal articles. Sometimes they are tagged as videos. Zotero imports these items as represented by the NLM and more often than not the publisher's metadata has this as a journal article type.
  • adamsmith
    Could we get an example for this? I'd say that general video recording seems like the right import for something tagged as Video-Audio material
  • DWL-SDCA
    I'll send an example the next time I find one. I agree that "video recording" is the right type. @chronicidal can you provide the link to the example you found?
  • chronicidal
    Here is one example:
    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32249471/

    Here are many examples:
    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term="case+reports"+[pt]+and+"Video-Audio+Media"+[pt]

    Most of these are text *in addition to* a video, indexed as part of a journal with page numbers (sometimes electronic page number).
  • DWL-SDCA
    edited August 24, 2021
    The problem I've encountered is that when this type of item is first added to the PubMed database they are sometimes labeled as PT - Journal Article. I do a daily PubMed search and my query string begins with (("2020/08/23 00:00:01"[CRDT] : "2020/08/23 23:59:59"[CRDT]) AND ("Accid Anal Prev"[ta] OR "Acta Psychol (Amst)"[ta] OR ... and concludes with NOT pmcbook NOT "video-audio media"[pt])

    I haven't returned to check whether these are corrected to the proper PT. The next time I find a similar error I'll capture the PubMed display type for the record and link to it in a forum message. Though, I doubt if there is anything Zotero can do when the error arises from PubMed.


    If relevant, you can see the full daily search string at:
    https://www.safetylit.org/SafetyLit-PubMed.html
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