Fun with Zotero downloading entire reference collections
- Where the Zotero address bar shows you, instead of a (blue) book or (black-and-white) manuscript icon (= journal article) a yellow Manila folder, you can download a batch of references at once.
- Prerequisites:
- The web page with the bibliographic collection needs to feature machine-readable metadata. COinS and DOI are common standards. Try and right-click on the Manila-folder (in FireFox, currently not supported in Chrome), you may have mote than one option:
- Zotero needs to have a “translator” (see the full, automatically generated list of all Zotero translator) for this site.
- You could start with checking whether you can download a base bibliography for your topic from its Wikipedia article:
- Limitations
- YMMV: Not all Wikipedia articles are marked up with machine-readable metadata (but I assume more and more, even though there is also FUD over shifting standards like microformats, microdata).
- The automation seems not forgiving if it runs into an error:
- I have not seen any useful exception information during such failures (there is a Zotero debug mode, though), so trying to get overcome this obstacle is an exercise in trial and error:
- Limitations
- Other most useful sites (at least if you are not affiliated with an institution of higher ed) are
- Amazon: (I actually ran into problems in this example, not a crash, but so slow that it appeared to me the download was hanging or had failed. So this is only a scaled down attempt:)
- Google Books:
- Google Scholar: Where authors provide their actual articles, Zotero shines even more: Here the Zotero translator is able to download also any (well, most!) attached PDF’s.
- Amazon: (I actually ran into problems in this example, not a crash, but so slow that it appeared to me the download was hanging or had failed. So this is only a scaled down attempt:)
- The web page with the bibliographic collection needs to feature machine-readable metadata. COinS and DOI are common standards. Try and right-click on the Manila-folder (in FireFox, currently not supported in Chrome), you may have mote than one option:
Categories: service-is-library, training
bibliographies, bibliography, coins, doi, metadata, MS-Word, zotero
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