styles Preprint/dataset repository: What CSL variable?

Preprint/dataset repository: What CSL variable?

Open bwiernik opened this issue 5 years ago • 4 comments

Encountering a wrinkle with preprints and datasets. From most preprint repositories, the name of the server is getting stored by Zotero's translators as container-title. This had seemed like a good idea (ala Journal titles). However, I am now seeing that some preprints and many datasets import with container-title used to indicate the collection or larger body of works the item belongs to (e.g., doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR35531.v3).

Conceptually, I think the preprint/data repository makes good conceptual sense as either archive or publisher rather than container-title (this is, for example, how the OSF repositories export in their metadata [as publisher], and CrossRef's posted content type uses "group-id", which would fit well with publisher; ICPSR stores its name in publisher). Most citation styles print publisher, so it seems like this would work well without many changes to existing styles.

Could we come to a consensus as to where these best belong? (Cross-posted to https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/preprint-dataset-repository-what-csl-variable/1570)