Feeds: Quality of metadata
I have tested the feeds of different journals in my field. For some of them, the main metadata displayed in the columns in the centre pane is extracted nicely (Title, Creator, Date, Publication, ...). But in most cases, a large part of the metadata extracted in not correctly attributed to the different fields, usually going all together to the field "Abstract". In the worst case, it could only get the title correctly.
Is there a way to improve the metadata extraction for each journal feed, as with the Zotero Connector?
Or is the problem coming from the publisher of the feed? In that case, what is the best way to report to them the problem? Is there any standard that they should follow so that it works nicely with Zotero?
Is there a way to improve the metadata extraction for each journal feed, as with the Zotero Connector?
Or is the problem coming from the publisher of the feed? In that case, what is the best way to report to them the problem? Is there any standard that they should follow so that it works nicely with Zotero?
Then the problem is from the publishers. It seems that they format the data themselves to look ok in some feed readers, without filling correctly the feed metadata that it used by Zotero.
I will contact some publishers to see if they can fix their feeds.
I can probably use the feed of Journal of Fluid Mechanics as a good example to follow (except the inlineFormula that cannot be displayed in Zotero) to explain what is needed:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/rss/product/id/1F51BCFAA50101CAF5CB9A20F8DEA3E4
Elsevier seems to use a random formatting to put all the metadata in the
description
element, without filling the standard metadata elements.For example, the RSS feed of the Journal of Computational Physics: https://rss.sciencedirect.com/publication/science/00219991
For this AIP journal Physics of Fluids, they also use their own formatting for the information put in
description
:https://aip.scitation.org/action/showFeed?type=etoc&feed=rss&jc=phf
For the Springer journal Experiments in Fluids, they do not mention the authors at all.
https://link.springer.com/search.rss?facet-content-type=Article&facet-journal-id=348&channel-name=Experiments in Fluids
Items inside the RSS feed "collections" are not yet fully accepted / integrated into your true Zotero library collections. Zotero feeds are great for capturing newly published articles. However, Zotero recognizes that seldom will a user want to always add to their library everything in every journal issue. Zotero lets you select only the items you need and allows you to place the items in the collection you choose.