Zotero and auto-downloading open access books | Martin Paul Eve | Professor of Literature, Technology and Publishing

This bank holiday, I wanted to spend some time playing around with Zotero’s automatic ingest of open access books. There are some problems with this.

For recap, Zotero offers users a way easily to ingest items using built-in metadata on a page. It supports Dublin Core, various RDF implementations, and COinS.

Here’s the problem, though: if you want automatic lookup by ISBN, you have to use the COinS translator/provide COinS metadata. This has a fallback system where, if there isn’t much metadata given, it looks it up.

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