Migrate Place to either Event Place or Publisher Place

[rmzelle]

"Place"/place is currently always mapped to both event-place and publisher-place in CSL. This is problematic as a) CSL styles can’t distinguish between the two variables and b) some item types would benefit from having both eventPlace and publisherPlace fields.

"Place"/place should probably be migrated to "Event Place"/eventPlace for audioRecording, presentation, radioBroadcast, tvBroadcast and videoRecording, and to "Publisher Place"/publisherPlace for book, bookSection, computerProgram, conferencePaper, dictionaryEntry, encyclopediaArticle, hearing, manuscript, map, newspaperArticle, patent, report and thesis. The item types conferencePaper and newspaperArticle require both fields (http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/8684/).

"Event Place"/eventPlace should be added to letter, which currently has no place field.

[avram]

Artwork may also need one or both place fields, currently being discussed at http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/1821/.

[erazlogo]

There is an old ticket to add place to letters: https://www.zotero.org/trac/ticket/1565

Examples from Chicago:

Gilbert McMicken to Alexander Morris, 29 November 1881, Glasgow (Scotland), Document 1359, fol. 1r, Alexander Morris Papers, MG-12-84, Provincial Archives of Manitoba, Winnipeg.

Henry Adams to Charles Milnes Gaskell, London, 30 March 1868, in Letters of Henry Adams, 1858–1891, ed. Worthington Chauncey Ford (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1930), 141.

[avram]

Agree that some type of "Place" should added to letter. I think it should be treated as event-place in CSL; the publication data of a letter is still not handled by Zotero, and probably won't happen until we get hierarchical item types.

[avram]

I've updated the summary above to reflect changes to Artwork and Letter.

[avram]

After additional thought, I decided that we haven't sufficiently worked out how places should be implemented for Artwork. Specifically, what are the two fields? What are they called? I think the idea is that the object/artwork was created in one place (event-place, in CSL), and it is exhibited or held in another (publisher-place).

The problem really is that the latter shouldn't be called "Publisher Place", because that makes it sound like we're looking for the location of the publisher that published (a reproduction of) this piece of artwork. The type doesn't currently account for artwork published in, say, exhibition catalogs, and I believe we're leaving that for the hierarchical model to resolve, so I'd like to have a different name for this.

We might also be able to use "Archive"/archive to hold where a piece of artwork is exhibited, which would have the nice side-effect of fitting with historians' practice.

[rmzelle]

How about "Current Place" or "Current Location" (publisher-place) and "Place of Origin" (event-place) for Artwork?

[avram]

For the sake of cross-references: there was another user being burned by the single Place field: http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/17532/, this time with conference papers.

We will need to need to treat "address" and "location" differently in BibTeX, and probably a number of other import and export formats.

[karnesky]

Note that the way that ACM uses 'address' and 'location' is not standard. http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/18296/acm-translator-bug/

[avram]

I don't like the label "Event Place" at the UI‌ level -- do we have any better options? Maybe call that "Place" and call the other "Publication Place"?

[rmzelle]

For clarity, the current "Place"/place (which will become "Publisher Place"/publisherPlace) for the Book item type should probably follow "Publisher".

I agree that we could use "Place" instead of "Event Place". I don't really like "Publication Place". How about "Location Publisher"?

[avram]

Publisher Location?

[rmzelle]

Sure :).

[tillheilmann]

For what it’s worth, I think interview and song should also have an event-place field:

• interview (event-place for the place where the interview took place, duh.)
• song (event-place could/should be used to designate the place where the recording took place, e.g. "The Beatles. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. London, EMI. 1969. Abbey Road Studios" where "Abbey Road Studios" is event-place and "London" is publisher-place).

As has been said by others before, speech and graphic/Artwork need an event-place as well. (graphic/Artwork definitely needs one for pieces of performance art, for example.)

[tillheilmann]

This is the list of suggested changes to the mapping of place I came up with when I tried to get my head around it. I made some proposals and still have several questions. Maybe it is of some help to you guys.

artwork

• "Event Place"/event-place: This could be used for the place where the artwork was produced. It is, of course, not the same as archive-place and is necessary for performance art pieces and the like.

audioRecording

• "Event Place"/event-place: This would be where the recording actually took place (e.g. Abbey Road Studios, Lincoln Center etc.)
• "Publisher Place"/publisher-place: This would be the place of the record label or company.

book

• "Publisher Place"/publisher-place

bookSection

• "Publisher Place"/publisher-place

computerProgram

• "Publisher Place"/publisher-place

conferencePaper

• "Publisher Place"/publisher-place
• "Event Place"/event-place: This could be used for the place where the conference took place, which is not necessarily the same as the place where the paper/proceedings were published.

dictionaryEntry

• "Publisher Place"/publisher-place

encyclopediaArticle film

• "Publisher Place"/publisher-place

hearing

• "Publisher Place"/publisher-place: ?? (see below)
• "Event Place"/event-place: I am not sure about the use of this in the US context. But it seems to me that a hearing is an event, and event-place should be used. Whether publisher-place is needed additionally to give the place where the publication of the document was produced I do not know.

interview

• "Event Place"/event-place: This could be where the interview took place. This seems very useful to me.

letter

• "Event Place"/event-place: Is this supposed to be the place where the letter was sent FROM or TO?

manuscript

• "Publisher Place"/publisher-place: I don’t know about this one. I thought manuscript was to be used for unpublished documents. (That is pretty much the dictionary definition of the word, at least.)

map

• "Publisher Place"/publisher-place

newspaperArticle

• "Publisher Place"/publisher-place
• "Event Place"/event-place: Is this supposed to be the place where the correspondent is reporting from?

patent

• "Publisher Place"/publisher-place

podcast

• "Event Place"/event-place: This could be used for the place where the podcast was recorded. I am not sure about it, but it could be useful to have it.

presentation

• "Event Place"/event-place

radioBroadcast

• "Publisher Place"/publisher-place: ?? (see below)
• "Event Place"/event-place: A broadcast is certainly an event, but I expect people to cite the place where the station or network has its headquarters. And for this, publisher-place seems the right choice. However, a show can be broadcast from a different place, and this would then be event-place.

report

• "Publisher Place"/publisher-place

thesis

• "Publisher Place"/publisher-place

tvBroadcast (same as radioBroadcast)

• "Publisher Place"/publisher-place: ?? (see below)
• "Event Place"/event-place: A broadcast is certainly an event, but I expect people to cite the place where the station or network has its headquarters. And for this, publisher-place seems the right choice. However, a show can be broadcast from a different place, and this would then be event-place.

videoRecording

• "Event Place"/event-place: A video recording recorded an event which took place somewhere (or in more places than one), alright. But my German localization of Zotero calls place "Ort" and publisher "Studio" which suggests that place, as it used now, means place of the publisher. Should this reallly be mapped to event-place?

[bwiernik]

For migrating current usage of "Place" in Zotero, only presentation should move "Place" to "event-place". (letter doesn't currently have a "Place" field). All other "Place" fields should generally be assumed to be "publisher-place". In some cases (e.g., conferencePaper, perhaps videoRecording and interview) a separate "Event Place" field should be added.

[dstillman]

Do we want to say "Publisher Place" and "Event Place" even on item types that only have one or the other? I'd prefer to just say "Place" at least for "Publisher Place" when that's the only option, since we've had that for the last 15 years, and it's right next to Publisher.

Somewhat related question: if you convert an item type with Publisher Place to an item type with only Event Place, would you expect the value to transfer, even though it's technically a different field?

[dstillman]

A belated thanks to @tillheilmann for the write-up. If anyone has any comments on or disagreements with that summary, please let me know.

Note that it questions the use of Publisher Place for Hearing, which currently has Place. Either Hearing values need to be migrated to Event Place or it needs both.

[adam3smith]

For hearing: I think it's logical to switch to event-place and we don't need two places: at least in the US, hearings are typically cited without any location (e.g. Bluebook, APA), but having one field available for other/more flexible cases makes sense.

[adam3smith]

Other comments: One thing I'd want to look at a bit closer is if artwork also needs publisher place (we definitely want event I think) or if indeed everything is covered between archive and event.

Only other small disagreement: I wouldn't add event-place to broadcasts. I've never seen that. Following that logic, I'd suggest using publisher place for podcasts: podcasts are increasingly similar to radio broadcasts, with traditional publishers like NPR, gimlet, TAL, etc. and having a publisher makes more sense for consistency. I'd guess this will be rarely cited, but good to have.

[bdarcus]

Just for clarification, where does JSON, and the 1.1 work, fit here in general?

Mainly just reminding you all.

[adam3smith]

Can you say more? I might have missed a part of the 1.1. discussion, but this is just mapping Zotero fields to existing CSL, so I'm not sure how 1.1/JSON would matter here?

[bwiernik]

@dstillman I have some disagreements with @tillheilmann noted above.

My summary:

• Place should be mapped to publisher-place for all item types except Presentation (speech) and Hearing (hearing)
• Place should be replaced with Event Place (event-place) for Presentation (speech) and Hearing (hearing)
• Event Place (event-place) should be added to Conference Paper (paper-conference), in addition to Place (publisher-place)
• Both Event Place (event-place) and Place (publisher-place) should be added to Interview (interview)

Keeping "Place" (publisher-place) makes sense to me. I think we should always label event-place as "Event Place" for clarity. For Conference Paper and Interview, it might be good to label it as "Publisher Place", but if the fields are "Place" (next to Publisher) and "Event Place", I think that would be clear enough too.

[bdarcus]

No worries; I just wasn't clear.

[dstillman]

Does Interview need Publisher, if it's getting Publisher Place?

[bwiernik]

Yes.

[dstillman]

Following up on @tillheilmann's question above, can a manuscript have a Publisher?

[bwiernik]

Yes. The institution where a manuscript was produced is cited in APA style.

[dstillman]

Should we call it "Institution" or "Publisher"?

[bwiernik]

Institution

[dstillman]

https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/98078/place-of-publication-for-item-type-film

Did we want either place for film?