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Re: [Orgmode] how difficultwould it be to support zotero in org?
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Scot Becker |
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Re: [Orgmode] how difficultwould it be to support zotero in org? |
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Thu, 14 Oct 2010 10:29:11 +0100 |
Jean,
Even though I knew about this development at Zotero, It didn't occur
to me that it might help org-Zotero integration. This is (or will be)
pretty cool, when it happens.
And I see that they already have the beginnings of an alpha release:
http://www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-everywhere-first-look/
Scot
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Jean-Marie Gaillourdet
<address@hidden> wrote:
> 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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