Step 4: Download, Install, and Set Up the QuickStatements Translator
Zotero and Wikidata are integrated with the use of a translator, a script that converts metadata stored in one format to another. The translator, which is called Wikidata QuickStatements.js and is part of a Zotero extension called zotkat, will generate a set of text commands to be imported into QuickStatements, an online tool program that can read and execute commands to create or edit a Wikidata item (Wikidata contributors, 2021). For this step:
- Download Wikidata QuickStatements.js file at https://github.com/UB-Mannheim/zotkat, and
- Paste the Wikidata QuickStatements.js file into the “translators” folder (see figure 4) of your Zotero installation.
Figure 4 From left to right, screenshots of Zotero folder and translators folder. Retrieved September 9, 2020.
After this, restart Zotero and open “Program Preferences” under the Edit menu. To complete this step, highlight the “Export” tab, and select “Wikidata QuickStatements” under the “Default Output Format” dropped down menu, as indicated in figure 5.
