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 _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
