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Zotero Everywhere: Browser- and Machine-Independent Support for the Research Community

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Zotero Everywhere: Browser- and Machine-Independent Support for the Research Community

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Zotero Everywhere: Browser- and Machine-Independent Support for the Research Community

Description

Through initiatives such as optional fee-based cloud storage through the recently formed Corporation for Digital Scholarship, a non-profit established to underwrite Zotero’s continuing
costs, the project has made major progress with respect to sustainability within the bounds of existing grant funding. Nonetheless, a critical challenge to Zotero’s long-term sustainability remains its exclusive tethering to the Firefox browser. We therefore propose a staged project to decouple Zotero from Firefox by developing a standalone Zotero client, by creating new Zotero toolbars for other popular browsers, and by significantly expanding the Zotero server’s functionality to support that client and other tools that interact with the platform. In short, to create an ecology that supports research wherever and however that research is being done.

Start Date

10/01/2010

End Date

09/30/2012

Proposal Co-Authors

Sean Takats
Dan Cohen

Web Designer(s)

Chris Raymond

Programmers

Dan Stillman
Faolan Cheslack-Postava
Trevor Owens

Staff Members

Ammon Shepherd
Andy Privee

Outreach

Trevor Owens

Deliverables

1. Independence from Firefox
a. Standalone Zotero compiled and running on Windows/Mac/Linux. Zotero will be compiled into an application that can run on any of operating systems supported by Firefox now or in the future.
b. New browser plugins. To interact with the new translator architecture described above, we will prepare browser plugins for several other popular web browsers.
c. A new site translator architecture that is decoupled from the Firefox browser.
2. Machine Independence
a) Syncing of full-text content. We will add syncing of full-text content to allow users to access their attachments (e.g. PDFs) from any installation of Zotero or via the web at zotero.org.
b) Expansion of the Zotero Server API. At present the Zotero Server API provides read-only access to personal and group libraries.
c) Library editing via the zotero.org website. Using the expanded API described above in 2b, we will produce a vastly improved web interface that will allow users to add, edit, and delete items.
d) Adding Zotero items via a bookmarklet. Zotero’s translator architecture is currently tethered exclusively to the Zotero Firefox add-on.
e) A generic citation API. Zotero 2.1 currently integrates an entirely rewritten citation formatting engine which can also run as a standalone server module.
f) On-demand file download. Even users with very large libraries will be able to access their data from locations with limited bandwidth, since there will be no need to synchronize all file attachments.

Funder

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Files

zotero_512x512x32.png

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Citation

“Zotero Everywhere: Browser- and Machine-Independent Support for the Research Community,” RRCHNM20, accessed December 12, 2024, https://20.rrchnm.org/items/show/12.

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