Trouble migrating from Jurism 6 (back to native) Zotero 9

AndySymons
I switched from Zotero 6 to Jurism 6 in 2021 because I needed multiple citation languages. Now that feature is in Zotero 9 and Jurism (still on 6) is not well supported on Mac silicon, so I want to move back to Zotero.

However...

1. I cannot sync Jurism with my Zotero cloud account because it cannot log on. Iit says the credentials are invalid, but I can log on manually just fine; I presume Jurism is just not up to date with Zotero authentication protocols.

2. Jurism will not export the whole library as an RDF (or anything else); the error log says it has an unknown library type. I can export and import a few items, but I have over 11k items altogether.

3. If I just copy Jurism/jurism.sqlite to Zotero/zotero.sqlite Zotero tells me I need to upgrade because I need 6 but it is only on 9!

Did anyone manage such a migration?

Ideally I would like to copy the multilingual data into the CNE plugin as well, but could forego that if necessary - as long I as I am sure I have the whole library.

  • AndySymons
    I am working on an extractor (python script) that will take data from a Jurism 6 database and write a format that can be imported into Zotero 9, including attachments and CNE tags. If anyone wants to help ....
  • adamsmith
    Have you tried changing your Zotero password and syncing right afterwards -- as per Zotero devs that should be possible to get Zotero versions <9 to authenticate and would then get you going.

    If you do use an extractor, I'd recommend going from the Jurism database through the Zotero API rather than an import format. The beta should also have a local implementation of the write API.
  • AndySymons
    @adamsmith thanks. Yes I tried the password change trick but it seems Zotero has closed that loophole now. The new Zotero logon uses a web page to authenticate.

    I am not sure what you mean by "going from the Jurism database through the Zotero API"?

    The current approach is to use a python script to write an RDF file, then import that into Zotero. Seems safest. It is however still work in progress. For details see https://github.com/AndySymons/Jurism-to-Zotero-migrator
  • dstillman Zotero Team
    I tried the password change trick but it seems Zotero has closed that loophole now
    We haven't for older Zotero clients, but we can't guarantee it works for Jurism, which likely identifies itself differently.

    Zotero API is referring to https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/web_api/v3/
  • AndySymons
    edited 2 days ago
    @dstillman Thanks. I tried several times with Jurism over the last couple of years, but no luck.

    I can export a few items from Jurism 6 and import them into Zotero 9, but for some reason Jurism will not export the whole library. I am also trying to get the extractor to translate Jurism language fields into 'Extra' field tags for CNE, and do a few 'cleaning up' tasks:
    - normalise language field values to iso codes (e.g. 'Spanish' to 'es'), so CNE will recognise them (good practice anyway)
    - change (legacy) absolute linked attachment paths to relative
    - keep the original date added (as a tag in 'Extra' (because the Zotero import overwrites it with the import data)
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