ISBN

  • ZotPress looks very useful. First of all I should say “thanks” to the developer.

    I am hoping to use Zotpress to manage the reading lists across several course description pages. I have one Zotero database of books and will have a tag for each course. Then, in the course description page, I will display the books with that course’s tag.

    Is there an easy way to get ISBN included in each entry on the list? I tried a few styles and none of them seemed to include ISBN.

    Is there a short code attribute that I have overlooked for ISBN=”yes”? Or is there some other short code attribute that allows me to choose which fields are included?

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  • Plugin Author Katie

    (@kseaborn)

    There isn’t a shortcode yet — you’re correct that it depends on the style you use, as well as if the ISBN metadata is available. I’m not aware of a style that displays ISBNs … you may have better luck on the Zotero forums.

    Thread Starter growWP

    (@growwp)

    Katie,
    Thanks for that … I convinced myself and the clients that we could manage without ISBN for the moment.

    Plugin Author Katie

    (@kseaborn)

    I think I’m going to add a “force metadata” option for situations like this — it’s added to the list. Stay tuned. ??

    Thread Starter growWP

    (@growwp)

    Katie,
    Thanks. That sounds interesting. So would you care to elaborate on that?

    I am imagining that it would be an addition that allowed short codes something like:
    a) [zotpress item="XYZ123" force-meta="Title, Author,Year,ISBN" ]
    which would return the data for Title, Author, Year and ISBN for that item.
    b) [zotpress Author="Fred Writer" force-meta="Title, Author,Year,ISBN" ]
    which would return a list of Fred’s publications with data for:
    Title, Author, Year and ISBN
    for each item.
    c) [zotpress Tag="Text book" force-meta="Title, Author,Year,ISBN,Tags"]
    which would return a list of all the publications with that tag set giving data for:
    Title, Author, Year, ISBN and all their Tags
    for each item.

    Obviously I am not trying to tie you to that syntax but I am just trying to get an idea of the sort of functionality you have in mind.

    Plugin Author Katie

    (@kseaborn)

    Almost exactly: a single metadata or a list, and the order determines the order of presentation.

    However, I was imagining that it would always be coupled with the citation, so I wouldn’t expect the normal author, year, title, etc., that are almost always included by the citation style.

    Are you saying it would be of benefit to retrieve and display JUST the metadata for an item?

    Thread Starter growWP

    (@growwp)

    Katie,
    I am very much a new comer to this and you are the expert. So I wouldn’t want to impose my view.

    However it seems to me that if the “forced meta data” option could potentially include each field in the publication record then that would provide a very flexible solution to a lot of problems.

    Plugin Author Katie

    (@kseaborn)

    Yes, I’d make it flexible — it’s more a matter of whether to display metadata on its own or to always include the styled citation and append the metadata to it. I will carry on with the latter.

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