Thank you in advance, Dan!
Linda
On 04/08/2015 05:29 PM, Dan Scott wrote:
On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 8:07 AM, Linda Jansova <skolk...@chello.cz
<mailto:skolk...@chello.cz>> wrote:
Hi,
Our colleagues in Jabok Library would like to promote the usage of
their Evergreen OPAC as Zotero source data so that their patrons
(and others of course) would be able to import individual
bibliographic records to Zotero reference management system
(https://www.zotero.org/).
When used as a Mozilla Firefox plugin, it is clear that the data
are imported via unAPI (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UnAPI;
unfortunately the homepage at http://unapi.info/ does not seem to
be working; a bit of unAPI documentation is available at
http://code4lib.org/files/unapi_revision_1-14.html, though maybe
it is not the latest version).
Everything seems to work fine with one exception and these are
records with non-ASCII characters such as letters with diacritics
("č" for example). As Czech language uses plenty of these, this
issue virtually prevents us from using Evergreen as Zotero data
source.
However, I have had a look at other Evergreen catalogs (including
the one from Laurentian University) and it seems to me that the
problem is also present there, e.g.
https://laurentian.concat.ca/eg/opac/record/104728?query=francais;qtype=keyword;locg=105;detail_record_view=1
(Le francais renouvelé - the "é" character is wrongly interpreted
as could be seen at the attached picture).
Both in Jabok library catalog and in the catalog at Laurentian I
have encountered the same problem when trying to print sample
records with these say "special" characters,
e.g.https://laurentian.concat.ca/eg/opac/record/print/104728?query=francais;qtype=keyword;locg=105;detail_record_view=1
Firefox seems to interpret the character encoding as Unicode when
viewing the usual (not the print) version of the bib record but
when one hits the "Print" button and then - when the print version
is displayed - checks the encoding, Firefox interprets it as
Western. Koha users have also been trying to sort out a similar
issue
(https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/39395/koha-translator-encoding-problem/)
- in their case the solution seems to be to modify opac-export.pl
<http://opac-export.pl> to export as UTF8.
Any ideas how to fix the issue in Evergreen? (Jabok uses Evergreen
2.6.4.)
Thank you in advance for sharing any hints!
Hi, that's an interesting problem. Zotero uses Evergreen's MODS
output, and it seems that the problem crept into the conversions that
use specific MODS versions; compare
https://laurentian.concat.ca/opac/extras/supercat/retrieve/mods/record/28391
to
https://laurentian.concat.ca/opac/extras/supercat/retrieve/mods3/record/28391
and you'll see that the first one works as expected, while the second
one is corrupted.
This is an issue for us too, as you can imagine (we're a bilingual
institution with an extensive French collection), so I'll be digging
into this. I recently fixed a similar problem with our Z39.50 server
output, so hopefully it won't take too long.
