suspicious metadata, expected Koopman, K. F. (1994). Chiroptera: Systematics. Handbook of Zoology, 1-217. , but got Krumbach, T., Koopman, K. F., & Krumbach, T. (1994). Chiroptera, Teilbd. 60: systematics. de Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13422270 https://linker.bio/hash://md5/70c3e0fba7379e09e95a38569fe29da7

jhpoelen commented 2 weeks ago

@ajacsherman any idea what to do with possibly suspicious BatLit metadata re: Koopman 1994.

Expected:

Koopman, K. F. (1994). Chiroptera: Systematics. Handbook of Zoology, 1-217.

, but BatLit listed:

Krumbach, T., Koopman, K. F., & Krumbach, T. (1994). Chiroptera, Teilbd. 60: systematics. de Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13422270 https://linker.bio/hash://md5/70c3e0fba7379e09e95a38569fe29da7

ajacsherman commented 2 weeks ago

The metadata that you are concerned with, can you be more specific? It looks like there are two different versions, one from 1994 and one from 2005 in German. The citation is probably messy because it is a volume as part of a series. The publisher cites the 1994 version as follows;Koopman, K. (1994). Teilband/Part 60 [Volume 1:] Systematics. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110888157 I will remove Krumbach as an additional author since he was only cited in the alternative title attributed by the Library of Congress when translated. Perhaps, "Koopman, Karl F., Chiroptera: Systematics, Bd. 8, Teilband 60, Handbuch der Zoologie – eine Naturgeschichte der Stämme des Tierreiches / Handbook of Zoology, De Gruyter, 1994." would be more accurate? I also corrected the ISBN from 978-3-11-014081-1 to 3-11-014081-0. I'll remove the K10plus ISBN? K10plus is a comprehensive union catalog that consolidates the bibliographic records of numerous academic libraries across Germany. It serves as a centralized database, facilitating access to a vast array of library holdings. Researchers and institutions can utilize K10plus to retrieve detailed bibliographic information by querying ISBNs, among other identifiers. It seems irrelevant to this project. I added editors since we have that information, but those are probably not necessary either.

JelleZijlstra commented 2 weeks ago

For what it's worth, I have it cited in Hesperomys as "Koopman, K.F. 1994-12-31. Chiroptera: Systematics. Handbook of Zoology. Volume VIII Mammalia. Part 60. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 217 pp. doi:10.1515/9783110888157". I think it's important to include the title "Chiroptera: Systematics", the series name "Handbook of Zoology" (or the German version, "Handbuch der Zoologie"), and the publisher Walter de Gruyter.

I don't know if there is a single right answer for the citation; there are many ways to cite book series like this. Krumbach definitely shouldn't be cited. He may have been the original series editor but the front matter for the Koopman volume indicates Krumbach was born in 1874, so I doubt he was involved in any way with the 1994 volume.

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