Piotr Konieczny wrote:
Michael Ekstrand wrote:
Cormac Lawler wrote:
Thanks for this Michael,
2009/11/2 Michael Ekstrand <ekstrand(a)cs.umn.edu
<mailto:ekstrand@cs.umn.edu>>
At WikiSym this year, some of us started a Zotero group for collecting
research papers about Wikipedia. It's intended to serve a purpose
similar to that of the "Wikipedia in academic studies" page[1], but in
Zotero so that it integrates well with the research process. Membership
is currently open to all, and anyone can add resources.
Can you give a link?
Here it is:
http://www.zotero.org/groups/wikipedia_research
Can you explain how Zotero integrates well with the research process?
There are two primary ways:
1. It is easy to capture citations into the Zotero database while
browsing and reading (if it knows how to capture the current page as a
citation, a icon will appear in the address bar. Clicking that icon is
all that is needed to add an entry to the citation database.).
2. Zotero can export to BiBTeX and other formats and also supports
generating reference lists for Word, OpenOffice, etc., so it is easy to
put citations from a Zotero database into a research paper.
For people managing their reference library in Zotero, it is much easier
to keep all their data there, and also easier to update a shared Zotero
collection. It does not need to replace WP:ACST, but can complement it
(likely as a superset).
I have not used Zotero myself; I see it is a Firefox
extension
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zotero) - nifty, but it doesn't work with
my SeaMonkey (nor with Chrome, Opera, and so on). Also, the entries are
not sortable, and seem listed only by name of the article.
In Zotero itself, the entries are sortable by a variety of fields and
are also searchable.
- Michael
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