Confusion re: editors

[LBST]

Bonjour, See listing for ebook pdf, title "Patrick Lenihan" : http://labourstudies.ca/citation/3011, and compare it with Zotero listing for same. The editor is Gilbert Levine, with series editor the Canadian Committee on Labour History. However, in the Labour Index, their respective roles have been reversed. I also made a number of corrections/edits last night after we corresponded. It would be good to do another update if it's not too much trouble.

[dbs]

Sigh

This appears to be a clash between the official RIS format at http://refdb.sourceforge.net/manual/ch07.html#sect1-ris-format which documents "Series Editor" as A3 and "Editor" as A2, and the Zotero RIS translator which exports "Series Editor" as A2 and "Editor" as A3.

I've adjusted my script according to Zotero's quirks, and reloaded the database. Note that http://labourstudies.ca/citation/3011 is now http://labourstudies.ca/citation/3010; this is something that when we really launch, I'm going to have to do a better job of avoiding breaking :/

[LBST]

Hello,

I am still seeing listings of "series editors" for editors of books.
Examples:
http://labourstudies.ca/citation/4150
http://labourstudies.ca/citation/3124

I am presuming you did the "real launch" that you mentioned in your
response of June 3.

dm

On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 11:55 AM, Dan Scott notifications@github.com wrote:

Sigh

This appears to be a clash between the official RIS format at
http://refdb.sourceforge.net/manual/ch07.html#sect1-ris-format which
documents "Series Editor" as A3 and "Editor" as A2, and the Zotero RIS
translator which exports "Series Editor" as A2 and "Editor" as A3.

I've adjusted my script according to Zotero's quirks, and reloaded the
database. Note that http://labourstudies.ca/citation/3011 is now
http://labourstudies.ca/citation/3010; this is something that when we
really launch, I'm going to have to do a better job of avoiding breaking :/

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[dbs]

Hah. So it turns out that Zotero exports "Series Editor" in RIS as follows:

• A2 for Book Chapters
• A3 for Books

When I made the original change in this issue, it fixed the situation for books; but that in turn broke the parsing for Book Chapters (which is what I had originally based my script's logic on).

As for "official launch", I'm still going with the "pilot" label that we used in the presentation. I have a feeling all of this RIS weirdness and Zotero's unwillingness to invest any time into cleaning it up is going to end up with me having to choose another one of Zotero's output formats as a base.