Re: [Refdb-users] Making RefDB cooperating with Zotero

[Torsten B. <br...@ph...>]

Hallöchen!

Bruce D'Arcus writes:

> [...]
>
> Keep in mind that Zotero is now split between a client, and a
> server.
>
> [...]
>
> Upshot is that I would assume some kind of server API interop
> might be worth exploring.

It could be implemented with URIs:

    addref zotero://login@localhost
    getref -o zotero://login@localhost :ID:>0

Of course, the Zotero server must meet the following requirements:

* serve in RIS format

* serve only datasets that have changed after a certain timestamp
  (namely the last synchronisation)

Zotero's IDs become citation keys in RefDB.

This also means that RefDB must introduce last-modified (and maybe
created) fields for its datasets.  This is something that I could
use for the Web frontend, too, for easier caching and for presenting
newly-added references on the front page.  The last-modified field
must be in libinfo because it's user-dependent.

All this is not very high on my wishlist for RefDB, though.  Manual
synching via RIS with Zotero now and then is fully sufficient for
me.

Tschö,
Torsten.

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