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Re: [Orgmode] how difficultwould it be to support zotero in org?
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Jean-Marie Gaillourdet |
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Re: [Orgmode] how difficultwould it be to support zotero in org? |
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Wed, 13 Oct 2010 11:18:50 +0200 |
Hi,
sorry to bring up this old thread, but there rather are rather new developments
at Zotero which might interesting to people here. See below.
On 03.09.2010, at 22:12, Scot Becker wrote:
> Another Zotero + org user here. Right now I do what Christian does: export
> Zotero to slightly tweaked BibTeX, and insert with RefTeX's amazingly cool
> reference-insertion interface (another genius piece of work by Carsten). I
> can think of two profitable ways to make inserting references from one's
> Zotero database into org-mode notes better, and one further way that org-mode
> could be more tightly linked with Zotero.
>
> 1) A utility (presumably part firefox plugin) which keeps a BibTeX file in
> sync with one of Zotero's collections. That way you don't have to do a full
> manual export of your Zotero collection every time you add or change
> something. RefTeX provides the citation insertion interface. Something
> similar this to exists for LyX. It doesn't sync a whole Z. collection, but
> creates a .bib file with the items you actually cite in your document. The
> author (an Emacs user) even considered generalizing it for use without LyX
> runing, i.e. for Emacs, but didn't find enough steam (after all, he uses
> LyX). (I also know that Mendeley can be made to auto-import from Zotero and
> to auto-export to BibTeX, but Mendeley's BibTeX export is not flexible.)
>
Zotero.org announced a new desktop application which will use a public
available read/write api to the Zotero service:
> With full read/write access to bibliographic data, attached files like PDFs,
> and the citation formatting engine, developers will be able to integrate a
> full
> range of Zotero features into their own web, mobile, and desktop applications,
> and users will be able to take advantage of this functionality at zotero.org.
>
See http://www.zotero.org/blog/zoteros-next-big-step/ for more details.
This should make it possible to use an official api to implement the use case
described above.
> 2) a org-mode-specific plain-text citation mechanism, analogous to BibTeX,
> but useful for both LaTeX and non-LaTeX exports. It would presumably have a
> CSL backend, and work the way that citeproc-hs works for pandoc. Presumably
> it could also use a RefTeX-like interface for citation insertion.
>
> 3) Easier ways to take reading notes (in org) on items in the Zotero
> database, with two way linking. (Thanks already for the tips in this thread.)
Regards,
Jean
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