My Discogs translator has finally been accepted into Zotero ! Now struggling music academics can easily cite music recordings rather than wrestling with auto citation cites that are geared towards books and papers 😄
A “translator” in Zotero is what scans the webpage that you have open for things that can be academically cited. My translator has quite a long history. I started a BA(Hons) in Creative Music Technology at Falmouth Uni in 2022. Of course academically they were hot on getting citation and referencing correct for assessments, even having their own Falmouth Harvard referencing style. There are citation generating sites out there and of course Zotero which can be linked to Word to automagically to order citations and bibliographies for dissertations and other academic work. However the whole system is, or at least was, focussed on books and papers. There’s a Zotero Youtube translator but nothing for music recordings. With Discogs being the premier site for classic recordings that I was using as DJ I decided to write a translator for that. After a lot of rounds of the developers suggesting various changes the translator was finally accepted !
I regard this as a minor coup for audio recording citations 😆 Maybe it will encourage others to do similar translators for other music sites ?
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