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Synchronise with Zotero

Posted by lejon on January 17, 2008 at 11:36am
Project:Bibliography Module
Version:7.x-1.x-dev
Component:Miscellaneous
Category:feature request
Priority:normal
Assigned:Unassigned
Status:postponed

Issue Summary

I would like to be able to synchronise the biblio records with Zotero instead of having to delete them all and re-upload a Zotero database.

I would also like to be able to upload the related pdfs.

Is this likely to be possible?

Cheers, it's a really good module so far.

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#1

Posted by rjerome on January 17, 2008 at 2:06pm

This one is a bit tricky. I am working on a "duplicate detection" system which in theory would only add new entries and thus solve your problem. There was also some talk a while back on the Zotero side of creating an API which would allow it to communicate directly with an external database but I don't know if any progress has been made on that front.

Ron.

#2

Posted by TfR75 on March 28, 2008 at 11:53am

subscribing

#3

Posted by rjerome on March 28, 2008 at 1:34pm

The duplicate detection system in in the 6.x-dev branch and I'm just working on methods to either skip duplicates or merge them. On merging, then comes the question... merge->left; merge<-right; all fields; some fields... The devil is always in the details :-(

Ron.

#4

Posted by marqpdx on April 4, 2008 at 10:15pm

subscribing, thx

#5

Posted by gustav on April 5, 2008 at 1:19pm

After a long pause the discussion about the zotero 2.0 server appears to have started up again at http://groups.google.com/group/zotero-dev/browse_thread/thread/4b7e8453b.... There is still now definite information though about the planned API, as far as I can see.

#6

Posted by gustav on April 24, 2008 at 6:59am

Zotero server sync is now promised for June, see http://www.zotero.org/documentation/development_roadmap. That is probably the point at which we could start thinking about integration with the biblio module. But it all depends on how much developer information the zotero project will release. They have been very bad at communicating with the developer community in the past but are planning to improve.

#7

Posted by ndru on December 18, 2008 at 1:12am

Zotero sync is in beta now. Perhaps the fact that they're being sued(frivolously and maliciously IMHO) by Thomson will make them eager for new friends, and improve their responsiveness in communication! We can only hope.

#8

Posted by designtist on January 30, 2009 at 9:47pm

subscribing

#9

Posted by samdiener on March 4, 2009 at 2:10am

Zotero has now released the 1.5 beta with the server synchronization for which some of the previous commenters were saying we were waiting.
But I'm a little confused. I want the visitors to my magazine site, www.peaceworkmagazine.org, to be able to click a button and add the citation and the tags into zotero. This is possible from Flickr, Amazon, and many libraries, now. Is this the feature you're requesting, or am I in the wrong thread? If so, I apologize. The Zotero page about exposing metadata is here: http://www.zotero.org/support/make_your_site_zotero_ready.
In Peace,
Sam Diener

#10

Posted by rjerome on March 4, 2009 at 3:17pm

If you want to go from Biblio/Drupal to Zotero, then it should already be working. When you visit a biblio page, you should see a little file folder icon on the right side of the address bar. Although having said that and just tested it, I see there is a little bug in the ordering of author names :-( I'll check on that.

#11

Posted by masood_mj on April 18, 2009 at 9:56am

subscribing

#12

Posted by kehan on August 3, 2009 at 9:03am

subscribing

#13

Posted by masood_mj on November 4, 2009 at 12:55pm

what about file export/import. Zotero has a Zotero RDF export feature which can export its library including its files. Is there any plan to support file export/import.

#14

Posted by rjerome on November 4, 2009 at 1:52pm

It should be possible to support Zotero RDF. When is another question, I'm just in the middle of porting to Drupal 7.

Ron.

#15

Posted by bekasu on January 5, 2010 at 12:35am
Status:active» postponed

Drupal 7 coding will take priority until late spring, 2010.

#16

Posted by Gerben Zaagsma on January 11, 2010 at 11:17pm

subscribing

#17

Posted by pmarchand on April 7, 2010 at 8:57pm

subscribing

#18

Posted by nhck on April 8, 2010 at 6:06pm

#19

Posted by ianchan on May 25, 2010 at 10:11pm

+1

#20

Posted by yacarreras on July 14, 2010 at 6:41pm

I need to know how can I use Bibliography to export information to zotero because it only export the title of documents

#21

Posted by rjerome on July 14, 2010 at 6:46pm

If you export your entries in BibTex or RIS format, you should be able to import them into Zotero.

#22

Posted by yacarreras on July 14, 2010 at 8:28pm

thanks you so much
i need know other thing
I have a content type called document, their metadata standard is Dublin Core title = dc: title author = dc: creator ,....end I want to import these metadata to the endnote or Zotero but not using the bibliography module

#23

Posted by rjerome on July 15, 2010 at 12:33am

I pretty sure it's not possible with Zotero, I'm not sure about EndNote, but I doubt it.

Ron.

#24

Posted by dleong on January 12, 2011 at 6:48pm

subscribing

#25

Posted by dominikb1888 on January 13, 2011 at 3:01pm

We are currently developing a Module for connecting Mendeley (mendeley.com) to Drupal, which also has a Zotero Library Integration. This might be a temporary solution for those who want to connect their Zotero Library to Drupal.

Module files can be found here: https://github.com/jakob-stoeck/drupal-biblio-mendeley/tree/

The module is only functional with a custom Mendeley and an OAuth library. If anybody is interested, I can send them a link to the libraries as they're still in development and thus not on Github yet.

#26

Posted by dleong on January 13, 2011 at 9:50pm

dominikb1888,

I'd be very interested in having a look at synchronizing Zotero data with Drupal in this way.
Would you please provide some installation instructions as well as I'm not as technically savvy as those who develop Drupal modules.

Thanks.

#27

Posted by dominikb1888 on January 26, 2011 at 10:09am

We have updated the Readme at https://github.com/jakob-stoeck/drupal-biblio-mendeley/tree/. It is now clearer how to install the module and where to find the necessary libraries.

Edit: I have just seen that this thread is on the 5.x Version of the module. The Biblio-Mendeley Module is only compatible with the 6.x branch.

#28

Posted by rjerome on January 27, 2011 at 12:58am
Version:5.x-1.x-dev» 6.x-2.x-dev

Just an update here...

I recently got a copy of the Zotero dataserver code (which is what the client syncs to), so I now know all the gory details of what is required of a Biblio sync module. There is one tiny hitch though... The sync server address is hard coded into the Zotero client, so (without modifying the client code) there is no way to point your Zotero client at your Drupal/Biblio server :-(

Ron.

#29

Posted by funkytraffic on February 10, 2011 at 3:38pm

subscribe

#30

Posted by dominikb1888 on February 14, 2011 at 11:44am

You can find a brief tutorial for a sample application with the biblio-mendeley module here: http://www.balanceonline.org/publications-exhibit/tutorial

I will update the site step-by-step to provide more detailed explanations. Atm It assumes you know a good deal in views and exhibit. If you have any questions regarding the setup let me know on here.

#31

Posted by dropcube on March 6, 2011 at 11:28pm

http://www.zotero.org/blog/zoteros-next-big-step/

Zotero’s web API offers any application developer the ability to access individual and group libraries via a simple, human-readable programming interface. Until now, this API has been “read-only”—users could view their libraries but they could not change them via the web or via the API. Today we’re announcing the opening of Zotero’s write API to the public over the coming months. Because Zotero “eats its own dog food”—we already use the very same programming interface to serve pages at zotero.org—application developers can be confident that the public API will ultimately provide all the same functionality used internally at the Zotero project. 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.

They had announce in that post a "radically expanded application programming interface (API) to provide web and mobile access to Zotero libraries", however, such API is not ready/documented yest, as far as I can see.

#32

Posted by rjerome on March 23, 2011 at 12:52am

I did come across the Zotoro API documentation recently, and I think the biblio-mendeley module could be cloned into a biblio-zotoro module, but that's not likely to happen (by me anyway) until the D7 version of Biblio is out the door.

Ron.

#33

Posted by Roger Saner on May 26, 2011 at 7:53pm

@dominikb1888 thanks for the tutorial :) Any idea how much work it would be to send changes from biblio back to Mendeley?

#34

Posted by dominikb1888 on June 6, 2011 at 3:21pm

Hi Roger,

thats already included in the module. It's syncing both worlds completely. We have tested it now in two projects and hadn't had any problems yet. I am still lagging in the process of applying for a GIT account. Then the module page shall contain every Info needed.

Best
Dominik

#35

Posted by ajlyon on June 13, 2011 at 4:58pm

I'm just starting to explore using Drupal, but I'm an active Zotero developer and I know that side of things already, so I'll try to see what I can do on this. All the functionality is there in the current Zotero API to do pretty much what the biblio module for Mendeley does.

#36

Posted by rufwork on June 15, 2011 at 5:39pm
Version:6.x-2.x-dev» 7.x-1.x-dev

@ajlyon -- What would you use for a user interface, you think? Would you have it suck in RDF's? Or hack up an extension to Drupal? I've made a FF extension right now that reads your local Zotero bibs and can throw selected ones to the net, and am moving now to learning more about Biblio to interface, but don't want to recreate [an inferior?] wheel.

#37

Posted by titaniumbones on August 18, 2011 at 9:34pm

@ajlyon/rufwork -- has either of you made progress on this over the last couple of months? We're looking at developing something similar for a Drupal Commons site but if you've already got something working we'd probably rther use what you have instead...

thanks!

#38

Posted by titaniumbones on August 24, 2011 at 2:31pm
Version:7.x-1.x-dev» 6.x-2.0-beta1

We have some initial code for htis up now at

http://drupal.org/sandbox/travismccauley/1258220

we'd love to get some more eyes on it; currently not feature-complete.

#39

Posted by travismccauley on August 24, 2011 at 7:48pm

Hi, I just updated the sandbox code for a Feeds API implementation for Zotero: http://drupal.org/sandbox/travismccauley/1258220. After working on this, I can say, I like the Feeds API for this sort of integration. It works well with Zotero since the api results come back in an Atom feed container. Feeds brings in a lot for free, like scheduling, expiration, mapping to cck fields. But it wont ever handle sync back to Zotero.

If this looks viable to folks, I'll promote to full project. I was thinking of 'biblio_zotero'. Better ideas?

-Travis
Toronto

#40

Posted by dominikb1888 on August 25, 2011 at 8:04am

With the Mendeley Plugin we're currently applying as "biblio_mendeley", so I guess "biblio_zotero" will be fine.

#41

Posted by travismccauley on August 26, 2011 at 7:04pm

Ok, it's a full project now. http://drupal.org/project/biblio_zotero. The old sandbox links are no longer working. The code is only available via git right now, but I'll roll a dev release soon.

#42

Posted by dominikb1888 on October 19, 2011 at 1:19pm

@travismccauley: Just saw you've released the dev version a month ago. Will test that. Probably we should define common standards the modules are relying on, such as feeds and oauth.

#43

Posted by pht3k on October 26, 2011 at 2:27am

hi,
i would like to know if the biblio-mendeley module is for drupal 6 or 7?
thanks,
pht3k

#44

Posted by dominikb1888 on October 26, 2011 at 7:22am

Hi pht3k

the module is for drupal6 currently. We are waiting for the biblio-7.x module to properly expose fields, until we make the move.

Best,
Dominik

#45

Posted by groovehunter on November 10, 2011 at 9:21pm

sub

#46

Posted by dan_aka_jack on January 29, 2012 at 10:36am
Version:6.x-2.0-beta1» 7.x-1.x-dev

subscribing... I'd love the Drupal Bibliography module to be able to use my Zotero reference library

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