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I was looking at a paper on MathSciNet, but Zotero doesn't recognize the URL:
http://www.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=2423350
This is because the regular expression in the translator doesn't recognize it. I suggest changing the "target" line to
"target":"^https?://www\\.ams\\.org[^/]*/mathscinet(/search/(?:publications\\.html|publdoc\\.html))|(-getitem\\?mr=)"
The regex could be made a bit more precise; more information on the exact syntax of those "getitem" URLs is at: http://www.ams.org/mathscinet/help/getitem.html
Also, while working on this, I made a backup of the translator file and called it "AMS MathSciNet.backup", thinking that Zotero would ignore any files without a .js extension -- but it doesn't, and while trying to figure things out, I accidentally submitted an automatic bug report, which should be ignored. Perhaps it would be a good idea to have Zotero only look for .js files in the translators directory?
http://www.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=2423350
This is because the regular expression in the translator doesn't recognize it. I suggest changing the "target" line to
"target":"^https?://www\\.ams\\.org[^/]*/mathscinet(/search/(?:publications\\.html|publdoc\\.html))|(-getitem\\?mr=)"
The regex could be made a bit more precise; more information on the exact syntax of those "getitem" URLs is at: http://www.ams.org/mathscinet/help/getitem.html
Also, while working on this, I made a backup of the translator file and called it "AMS MathSciNet.backup", thinking that Zotero would ignore any files without a .js extension -- but it doesn't, and while trying to figure things out, I accidentally submitted an automatic bug report, which should be ignored. Perhaps it would be a good idea to have Zotero only look for .js files in the translators directory?
http://www.zentralblatt-math.org/zmath/en/search/zmath.bibtex?q=an:05574357&type=bibtex&format=complete
or
http://www.zentralblatt-math.org/zmath/en/search/?q=an:1163.91463&format=complete
I know basically zip about Javascript, but looking at the MathSciNet translator, it looks pretty simple: it recognizes a page, and when you ask Zotero to save it, I think Zotero just downloads and parses the BibTeX version -- so it should be easy to adapt the MSN translator to a Zbl one.
BTW, saving the above paper using the DOI didn't work for me, but apparently it has just been fixed: http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/7751/add-item-by-identifier-doi-broken/
One workaround for Zbl is to look at the BibTeX page (like your first link), select and copy the entry, and then in Zotero, click the gear icon and do "import from clipboard". (A very simple, but awesome feature IMHO.) That worked for me.
This is doubly frustrating since there are larger problems with Zotero, namely with the BibTeX export. If this extremely simple fix can't get put in, it's surely a waste of time to report more complicated issues related to import and export.
my sense is that this is especially true for translator issues - my guess would be that this is because of the way responsibilities are shared among core developers, but I don't know.
probably posting this to the dev list is a better idea.
http://groups.google.com/group/zotero-dev
you'll also see an ongoing discussion about bibtex export there, if you want to get involved in that.