Upgrade StorageMerge needs improvement (book chapter example)
Merge needs improvement. Book chapters should offer to bring in chapter authors when a book section entry is being merged.
It is very common for online sources to have poor metadata for the book chapter information, and PDF metadata reading might recognize title and author. Creating a book section from the book partly addresses this - but merging automatic metadata with the "create a books section" metadata needs improvement: starting with the book-originated book section is generally useful EXCEPT there's manual work on the chapter authors.
(I'd also welcome sources for book chapter metadata: section-based DOIs generally are not working for me, and publisher sites often don't bring in good metadata either.)
-Jodi
It is very common for online sources to have poor metadata for the book chapter information, and PDF metadata reading might recognize title and author. Creating a book section from the book partly addresses this - but merging automatic metadata with the "create a books section" metadata needs improvement: starting with the book-originated book section is generally useful EXCEPT there's manual work on the chapter authors.
(I'd also welcome sources for book chapter metadata: section-based DOIs generally are not working for me, and publisher sites often don't bring in good metadata either.)
-Jodi
Yes. When Book Author is present, Author is not enabled as an option for the merge.
As for examples:
Today I was working with a DeGruyter book:
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.7560/314555-016/html
Book just reuses the chapter.
Here's a book chapter that thinks it's a journal article:
https://ebooks.iospress.nl/volumearticle/45276
We get author information but on book-level information (citation norms for computer science wouldn't insist on those - but depends on the field). That's a common issue with IOSPress ebooks, here's another
https://ebooks.iospress.nl/volumearticle/51412
And with other publishers:
https://direct.mit.edu/books/book/2285/chapter-abstract/59826/When-Should-We-Use-Real-Names-in-Published?redirectedFrom=fulltext
Sometimes metadata is good as far as it goes but still leaves ambiguities. For instance, we get "editor" here when the book authors are also the chapter authors:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/rethinking-evidence-in-the-time-of-pandemics/objectivist-vs-praxial-knowledge-towards-a-model-of-situated-epistemologies-and-narrative-identification/DAF73E5804AE447842DE0CF3E4595413#CN-bp-6
Here there are separate book authors and chapter authors - we only get the chapter authors:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003090304-12/journalism-eschatology-dominic-hinde
Similarly Springer:
https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-90-481-9473-5_7
(which has
In the past Springer has been a good source of examples - but I can't find any book chapter challenges at the moment.
Does that help?
One case doesn't work as I'd want: DOI import on this one grabs the whole book:
10.1017/9781009030687.006
Also: DOI import almost never includes abstracts.
Simplicity is also an issue: One click for the web translator is always simper than copy DOI - click button - paste - click - save the PDF - attach it....
I don't routinely try the DOI import for book chapters: references rarely include these (yet) so typically if I have a DOI for a book chapter I'm already on the page. I prefer library copies to Zotero-found versions (nice when items are gold open access; but in extreme cases what's grabbed is not even the correct item).
Is IOS Press DOI failure a known issue, or is this to do with the dashes in the URL or something? That "lookup failed" is frequent for me on DOIs whose URL versions resolve so it would be useful to know when to expect this to happen.
-Jodi
PS:
OTHER DETAILS (how the metadata is in these cases)
For the DeGruyer - better on author/editor info (the publisher import gives a placeholder for "abstract" - either junk or useful depending on point of view)
For the MIT Press - better - but still has the infelicity that the chapter authors are missing (but they're the same as the book editors in this case)
For the Routledge - GREAT metadata (page numbers! place! editors! a careful author might not even have to edit this to get a correct bibliography item!) but the DOI is only in the URL - most readers won't know it because it's not on the page.