ProQuest
Until yesterday, I had been able to save citation info without trouble using ProQuest (which I use for probably 50% of my references). Then I manually updated my scrapers. Now, when I click the save icon on any item I get "Could not save item: an error occurred while saving this item", etc.
So I assume it's not due to a change made by ProQuest.
Help?
So I assume it's not due to a change made by ProQuest.
Help?
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I arrived at this improvement in the the proquest translator, but it is still not complete, as the journal name is not found, and so the type is not arrived at properly.
the title and author are no longer in td element, but are not in DIV elements.
the additional information is no longer inside tbody, just table.
// changed from td, to div.
var xpath = '//div[@class="headerBlack"]/strong';
newItem.title = doc.evaluate(xpath, doc, nsResolver, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext().textContent;
// Authors
var xpath = '//div[@class="textMedium"]/a/em';
var elmts = doc.evaluate(xpath, doc, nsResolver, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null);
while(elmt = elmts.iterateNext()) {
// there are sometimes additional tags representing highlighting
var author = elmt.textContent;
if(author) {
newItem.creators.push(Zotero.Utilities.cleanAuthor(author, "author"));
}
}
// changed from ../tbody/td
// Other info
var xpath = '//table[@id="tableIndexTerms"]/tr';
I hope this can help debug this problem.
does the 20-Aug 2007 release of Z have this RIS export?
When this is updated will the translator have the same GUID, or a different one?
I have updated my scrapers -- (24 aug) and the Proquest scraper does not seem to
have updated. (GUID a77690cf-c5d1-8fc4-110f-d1fc765dcf88 ).
still examining strong elements, etc.
Maybe if each translator came with a version number itself, it would be easier to
talk about these things?
Thanks a lot,
Rick Silterra (es287@cornell.edu)
edge case. I look at a record, and the has been determined as shows up as a 'Web page' so it does not have ISSN, volume, issue, and page number data. The RIS is being parsed but it seems like parts are missed.
Looking at this record -- what seems wonky to you?
http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=730616701&Fmt=6&clientId=8424&RQT=309&VName=PQD
and at the RIS that gets downloaded.
Provider: Proquest Company Inc.
Database: Proquest
Content: text/html
DBvendor=ProQuest Information and Learning Company
DBname=ProQuest
Text-encoding=ASCII
TY - JOUR
AU - Glenn-marie Lange
TI - Wealth, Natural Capital, and Sustainable Development: Contrasting Examples from Botswana and Namibia
JO - Environmental and Resource Economics
PY - Nov 2004
SN - 09246460
VL - 29
IS - 3
SP - 257
UR - http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=730616701&Fmt=7&clientId=8424&RQT=309&VName=PQD
AB - Theoretical work has demonstrated that sustainable development requires non-declining per capita wealth, where wealth is defined to include produced, natural, human and social capital. Several studies have attempted to measure total national wealth or changes in wealth, but have been seriously hampered by a lack of data, especially for natural and human capital. To address this problem, the UN and other international statistical agencies developed a standardized framework for environmental accounts, the System of integrated Environmental and Economic Accounts (SEEA). Using the newly available asset accounts for natural capital, national wealth accounts are constructed and used to assess the contrasting development paths of Botswana and Namibia. Botswana, with an explicit policy of reinvestment of resource rents, has roughly tripled per capita wealth and national income over the past two decades. Namibia, with no explicit policy to use natural capita to build wealth, has seen per capita wealth and income decline. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
KW - Studies
KW - Sustainable development
KW - Wealth
KW - Capital
KW - Environmental accounting
KW - Environmental economics
KW - Economic theory
ER -
15:52:32 ===>Returned item:
'itemType' => "undefined"
'creators' ...
'0' ...
'lastName' => "KirkWhite"
'firstName' => "T"
'creatorType' => "author"
'notes' ...
'0' ...
'note' => "Black-white wealth inequality is much greater than black-white earnings inequality in the United States. The existing empirical literature has not been able to fully explain the wealth gap. This paper investigates how much of current black-white income and wealth inequality can be explained by initial conditions at Emancipation and nearly 100 years of segregated schools. A two-sector model with group-specific human capital accumulation and school expenditure differences can explain the path of black-white convergence in earnings over the past 130 years. The model also reproduces the fact that black-white wealth ratios remain much lower than black-white earnings ratios. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT] "
'tags' ...
'0' => "Income inequality"
'1' => "Wealth"
'2' => "Emancipation of slaves"
'3' => "Economic models"
'4' => "Studies"
'seeAlso' ...
'attachments' ...
'0' ...
'url' => "http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1320985481&Fmt=7&clientId=8424&RQT=309&VName=PQD "
'title' => "Initial conditions at Emancipation: The long-run effect on black-white wealth and earnings inequality"
'publicationTitle' => "Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control"
'date' => "Oct 2007"
'ISBN' => "01651889"
'ISSN' => "01651889"
'volume' => "31"
'issue' => "10"
'pages' => "3370"
'url' => "http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1320985481&Fmt=7&clientId=8424&RQT=309&VName=PQD "
'complete' => function(...){...}
'repository' => "ProQuest"
<===(string)
15:52:32 ===>Translation successful<===(string)
It seems to me that the type should not be undefined.
I cobbled in some logic, in parseRIS,
....
translator.setHandler("itemDone", function(obj, item) {
var cre = new Array();
if (item.ISSN) { item.itemType = 'journalArticle';}
else { if (item.issue) item.itemType = 'journalArticle';}
...
to set this, as I cannot decipher the RIS logic for setting the type.
Thanks,
Rick
When I first search and get a full list of documents, zotero recognizes them all as a folder, but when i narrow my interest to 'My Research' after clicking on the few relevant articles, zotero doesn't recognize that subset as a folder. additionally, when i click on a single entry, i can get zotero to scrape only in the 'abstract' version, and trying to save the pdfs always fails.
i've tried on my own computer and on a friend's--my own zotero has lots of items, but i'd just downloaded zotero to my friend's computer today. anyone else encountering similar problems? i'm happy to duplicate my searches if someone can tell me what data is most useful to help you identify the problem.
again--a few months ago Proquest APS worked magnificently with zotero--capturing everything including linked pdfs...
thanks, joshua
i tried project muse; no luck there either.
thanks, joshua
This is a doctoral dissertation, but I guess what is going on is that worldcat has it stored in the record form "book"? It looks like a number of the fields aren't importing.
Proquest site translator doesn't seem to be working.
Post a new thread with some sample URLs that aren't working for you, and the error message from "Report Errors" in the gear menu.