meaning of "type" field for tags

[Massimiliano Carloni]

Hello everyone!

I am currently fetching tags from a public library through the Zotero API. I would like to ask what exactly the field "type" (under "meta") means in the response. To give a more concrete example:

I am currently sending this request: https://api.zotero.org/groups/4822236/tags?tag=Statistics

The response (attached at the end) shows two different tags "Statistics", with two different values for the field meta/type (0 and 1) as well as two different numItems (2 and 1). However, their links (both self and alternate) are the same. I haven't found any info on this in the documentation, the Zotero schema or the mailing list.

However, if I view the items that have this tag on the web GUI, I just see a single Statistics tag with two items: http://zotero.org/groups/4822236/tags/Statistics

Does anybody know exactly what this "type" field indicates and what is happening here? Thank you so much in advance!

Best,

Massimiliano

Response

[
    {
        "tag": "Statistics",
        "links": {
            "self": {
                "href": "https://api.zotero.org/groups/4822236/tags/Statistics",
                "type": "application/json"
            },
            "alternate": {
                "href": "http://zotero.org/groups/4822236/tags/Statistics",
                "type": "text/html"
            }
        },
        "meta": {
            "type": 0,
            "numItems": 2
        }
    },
    {
        "tag": "Statistics",
        "links": {
            "self": {
                "href": "https://api.zotero.org/groups/4822236/tags/Statistics",
                "type": "application/json"
            },
            "alternate": {
                "href": "http://zotero.org/groups/4822236/tags/Statistics",
                "type": "text/html"
            }
        },
        "meta": {
            "type": 1,
            "numItems": 1
        }
    }
]