Austlii translator - any other fields available, e.g. headnotes?

ybanens · 2026-02-17T05:23:58+00:00

The Austlii translator is a godsend for capturing cases (although I just realised that entering authorised reporter information messes up the AGLC4 footnote, see https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/comment/479896/#Comment_479896).

I'm curious if there are any other fields that can be pulled from an Austlii case page? I thought it might be handy (for example) to drop the catchwords into Zotero's 'Abstract' field.

AbeJellinek · 2026-02-18T17:46:21+00:00

If there's something on the page that should be in a Zotero field, we can do that. Could you provide a complete list of the mappings that are currently missing?

ybanens · 2026-02-19T00:59:07+00:00

Thanks for responding, @AbeJellinek. What I find myself doing most often is manually copy/pasting the authorised report information (e.g. `101 CLR 302`) into the `Volume`, `Reporter` and `First Page` fields. This, I think, a good number of people might want. Not all Austlii entries contain the authorised report info, however.

The other thing I personally would like to do, but I'm not confident that everybody would want, is to capture the `Catchwords` on the page and use it to populate the `Abstract` field. That might not work for everyone and the catchwords aren't strictly an abstract, so it would be just a personal hack if I could manage it.

See attached screenshot for illustration.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u5684258/ff9dhbq012xatix40kjs.png