List of all begged-for site translators

hpstricker
Is there a comprehensive list of all begged-for site translators?
  • adamsmith
    not really. There is this thread, but it's neither a list nor comprehensive.
    http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/2814/
    but as I say there, too - begging is, at this time, essentially useless.
  • DWL-SDCA
    edited December 10, 2010
    While begging for a Zotero translator may not be productive at this time, you should consider begging the journals' editors and publishers to provide metadata that can be automatically imported into Zotero.

    A couple of years ago we added unAPI capability to the SafetyLit bibliographic database. The task was trivial (I believe that it required only 2.5 hours of programming time). SafetyLit records can now seamlessly enter a Zotero database.

    I have been making it a practice to write to editors and publishers of journals that don't make it easy to import records into Zotero. I've also been pressing the administrators of several bibliographic databases (TRIS, ERIC, NCJRS) to make their metadata similarly available. I also make it a point to ask for standards-based metadata content so that any imported records will not need editing.

    If the editors and publishers receive enough intelligent and polite requests (and can be made to understand that making quality metadata available in standard format can be relatively easy to accomplish) we are likely to get what we ask for.

    One of my approaches has been to point out that impact factor ratings depend upon citations and anything that makes it easier for authors to accurately cite a journal's material can help increase the impact factor.

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