Author double surname import from OSF metadata is incorrect

mcarras
Hello all,
First, I stan for Zotero; thanks for all the hard work.

Second, I have a double surname. It displays correctly in OSF's profile (as shown in the Family Name and Citation Preview fields in the Edit Profile page), but when I try to import a specific OSF project by clicking the Chrome extension, only my second surname (Carras) shows up in the Zotero surname field; my first surname (Colder) is added after my first name (Michelle). In other words, it shows up as Carras, Michelle Colder.

I see there have been occasional problems with double surnames in Zotero before, and I was wondering if there was a fix for this (other than editing the author field manually)?
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Thanks again.

Michelle
  • adamsmith
    That's because OSF exposes the name as "Michael Colder Carras" and leaves Zotero to guess, and middle names are more common than double last names (I think we actually do switch this for materials we detect as Spanish). Here's the metadata from the site header:

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    OSF is clearly aware of what's the family name (else they couldn't generate correct APA), but I don't see anywhere we can get to it. I'd ask them to add authors as "family, given" to the meta tags, so <meta name="citation_author" content="Colder Carras, Michelle " />

    and explicitly label given and family names in the schema.org/JSON-LD, so

    {
    "@type":"Person",
    "givenName":"Michelle",
    "familyName":"Colder Carras"
    }
  • mcarras
    Ah, perfect! Thanks. I'll let them know!
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