Bad Import from Brill using Chrome Plugin

Matthew-hu · January 1, 2025

Using the chrome plugin on Win 10 and Zot 7 is not working correctly at Brill.com. It imports the pdfs fine but only imports a fraction of the metadata and miscategorizes Books as Book sections (which it has been doing for quite a long time). If I copy the DOI directly from the same Brill page as the resource and import to Zotero via Create Parent item, all the data comes in as it should.

adamsmith · January 1, 2025

Please always provide a couple of sample URLs for import errors, even if the entire site is affected.

Matthew-hu · January 1, 2025

I have not checked all sections, but from what I can tell it appears to be site wide. Here are some samples:

Two books that come in as Book sections and lack a lot of the meta data
https://brill.com/display/title/39480
https://brill.com/display/title/8241?rskey=rn6raM&result=3

Open Access Book with similar problems
https://brill.com/display/title/68196

Two book sections that come in as book sections but lack most info: https://brill.com/display/book/edcoll/9789004276215/B9789004276215-s050.xml?rskey=2zT7ov&result=46
https://brill.com/display/book/9789401207690/B9789401207690-s003.xml?rskey=2zT7ov&result=50

samvimes · January 1, 2025

I've also noticed problems with the Brill translator in Firefox (https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/109672/brill-translator-imports-book-as-book-section/p1)