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.
