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I agree that briefs are different from opinions, particularly because the latter is often a published source while the former often is not. Under the Bluebook rules, brief citations require a case or docket number, in addition to the data included i…
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The logic of the scheme you've set out is clear enough, but it looks a little like a vision of the future rather than an exact description of the current situation. On the face of it, as things stand today, isn't there a difference between a large p…
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CB: I think the way to think of this is to go back to FRBR. A journal article has a DOI. That DOI is an identifier for a particular expression of a work. In turn, that expression has three different manifestations; aka formats: print, PDF, HTML. E…
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We've been talking about this for the development of the RDF model I hope to see Zotero use for import/export. I'll let the Zotero people comment on whether or not this fits their thinking. In the RDF model (and indeed the citation style model) the…
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Yes, I know, I know; CSL needs documentation. In my defense (I'm the author), I'm busy beyond belief (am a professional academic too). Also, CSL is currently undergoing some changes before we freeze it for a 1.0 release. Once we get to that point, …
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I agree Matthias. I think the solution is probably to introduce some explicit notion of copy (in frbr terms, item) into the UI. So there are local copies on the file system, and there are global copies identified with URIs. In essence, a link is a…
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If someone wants to create an APA-style bibliography, today, using Zotero, they either have to delete a lot of potententially-useful data from their Zotero db, or have to do lots of tedious manual editing of Zotero's output. No, they don't have to d…
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APA style mandates retrieval information only for electronic sources. So to get non-electronic sources to appear in correct APA style with Zotero, it's currently necessary to delete data (which may be required for other purposes). This strikes me as…
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"Note" comes into it because the citations are rendered in notes, rather than in the text proper (as with the author-date style). And it is "note" rather than "footnote" to leave it to implementations or users to choose whether they want footnotes o…
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There is an item type for "book section" but that seems to assume that the whole book is authored by the same person who wrote the section. This is an incorrect assumption, and it's been addressed in the forums many, many times (has this not been ad…
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Of course, my pipe dream involves a Zotero plug-in that works with OS X text editors (I use Emacs), so that I can have a FOSS replacement for Word and all its tentacles. You could always use OpenOffice/NeoOffice. There's a Zotero extension coming fo…
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I don't really recommend using this approach for integration with OOo. There will be a better solution coming soon (any day now??).
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This is the same issue as the request from BibTeX users to store keys, so I presume the solution (for the Zotero devs) would be the same (a user-specific label of sorts).
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In the meantime, if you want to use Zotero for a long paper, we'd suggest dragging items into Word to create static references (see the Quick Copy settings in the Zotero prefs) rather than using the released plugin, which is really an experimental a…
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I use these two fields really to refer to a personal archive. If that's not the normal use of these fields, sorry. But which fields can be used otherwise for making a unique reference from database entries to a physical place, where the printed hard…
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Why would you need archive location information for those types? This field is not used for information about a personal archive.
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The first step is not an editing interface. The very first step is that we need to move styles online. Zotero should not be storing CSL files in the database, unless a user happens to select one and it gets cached. So, steps: 1. update Zotero to g…
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I don't really agree with your premise: that Zotero is primarily for web resources, that it's any more a problem to open Firefox to take notes than any other application, or that the developers aren't doing a very good job elegantly building up an i…
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You need to be more specific. I'm sure the developers have looked at the documentation, but you need to say what's missing.
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I don't think so. The library lists resources, not people. That said, with the move to a new -- more relational -- data model, they could consider allowing this. I suspect it might present some UI problems though.
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"Book Section" is indeed what you need, the only awkwardness coming from the way the Bible uses the term "book". In that the case, the "book title" is in fact "The Bible." Aside from that, the only issue is more fine-grained locators like verse (an…
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people who study religions need a special item for Sacred Religious Texts. These would have the book/chapter and verse designations, instead of necessarily page numbers. Also the publication information is not as important. First, the caveat I don't…
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AFAIK it does not now support user-defined keys, and I hope it doesn't in the future without careful thought about how it fits into a more distributed Zotero model. As I said in the original thread, I don't want to see Zotero privileging BibTeX in…
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I'm curious if the Zotero team has an internationalization plan. I'm not exactly sure how best to do that, but it's something to consider with the move to a more relational model and server functionality. BTW, how are you dealing with Asian persona…
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This has been discussed before; see here.
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Right, what Matthias said. I think the way forward is to incrementally build up the CSL previewer that Dan wrote. First it could just have some basic parameters options that would maybe get the user 95% to a finished style. Then those could be exten…
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Rick: in the long run, styles will become irrelevant, as everything becomes electronic and web accessible. But we'll be stuck with the arcane eccentricities of publisher and journal specific citation styles for a long time unfortunately. The proble…
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If you read through the forums, you'll see that the startup time is not a function of the database (which *is* SQLite). It's the UI: the JS-based sorting of the table, etc.
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Amazon doesn't use the word "contributor" in their metadata and Zotero formats Amazon entries just fine in APA bibliography. Different data sources. There's only so much Zotero can with bad data (though perhaps with MARC data it ought to assume a co…
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See here. So the style must use the English attribute names; otherwise it will be invalid. The formatter uses that to look up the correct string to use depending on the language. You just need to make sure you have the correct translation in the …