Re: [Orgmode] how difficultwould it be to support zotero in org?

[Jean-Marie Gaillourdet]

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