Electronic text fields

shficke2
Since there are more and more texts (books, newspapers, etc.) being published electronically, it would be nice to have a template that would incorporate both book information (publisher, place of publication, pages if a section of a book, etc.) with electronic information (space for the name of the electronic publisher, date published online, etc.). An example would be an electronic source like Documenting the American South from the University of North Carolina (example:http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/chopinawake/chopin.html) for which the MLA citation reads:
Chopin, Kate. The Awakening. Chicago: Herbert S. Stone, 1899. Documenting the American South. 1998. University Library, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 7 January 2004 <http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/chopinawake/chopin.html>.
  • bdarcus
    Maybe I'm missing something, but Zotero is already designed with exactly this recognition in mind. Most types allow a URL and access date, for example, and there's nothing in particular that distinguishes the publisher of an electronic text from any other publisher.

    That said, there may be some more general incoherence/limitations in the data model (for example, the Document type doesn't include a place field, and the flat modeling makes it difficult to describe relations such as republished versions of previously published items).
  • erazlogo
    edited February 3, 2008
    shficke: If you include URL in your record, it will be included in your bibliography. The database/library information from your example goes in the "repository" field. But archival fields are currently not included in citations of published sources (books, periodicals, etc.) because translators for most online databases put database or library name in the "repository" field and hence make it impossible to distinguish valid archival information that should be cited. There is a ticket for this--once this gets fixed you will be able to cite your source correctly. Full-featured support for books-inside-databases and the like will be eventually provided in the new Zotero hierarchical item type model.

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