[Foundation-l] Zotero / Archive Cooperation

[Oldak Quill]

Reading Erik's e-mail and the press release at zotero.org
(http://www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-and-the-internet-archive-join-forces/),
I'm not sure whether this project is a centralised citation database,
a centralised source database, a website annotation tool, or all
three?

Isn't this similar to one of the proposed implementations of WikiData
(http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiData), now implemented by
scionline.org? That is, a tool that stores references centrally to
make references more useful and more easy to use (scionline.org "uses
a popup to allow editors to enter citations as they edit text").

On 02/01/2008, Chad <innocentkiller at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ok, as cool as this is...so? How does this relate to the Foundation Erik?
>
> Chad
>
> On Jan 2, 2008 3:16 PM, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> > FYI
> >
> > http://www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-and-the-internet-archive-join-forces/
> >
> >
> > Recently the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded the Center for
> > History and New Media and the Internet Archive $1.2 million dollars to
> > develop new services that will aid scholarly sharing, collaboration,
> > citation, and annotation.
> >
> > In 2008, users will be able to drag and drop items into the "Zotero
> > Commons"—a dedicated part of the Internet Archive's servers—through
> > icon in the left column.
> >
> > Zotero Commons
> >
> > Items donated to the Commons will be stored in subdirectories of the
> > Commons named for the donors. In addition to encouraging donations to
> > the commons (since those donating will receive credit for their
> > contributions), this feature will also enable users to identify others
> > who are working with and/or annotating the same content, fostering new
> > collaboration opportunities. The benefits to the scholarly community
> > of the Common are thus threefold:
> >
> > 1) The availability of permanent, persistent archival, off-site
> > storage for long-term management and use of digital content.
> >
> > 2) The ability to share resources publicly for easy access by other scholars.
> >
> > 3) The simplified discovery of new, related resources and potential
> > collaboration opportunities.
> >
> > As an added incentive to donate to the Commons, the Internet Archive
> > will provide free OCR for your contributions and send you the
> > transcribed text to help you search your personal library.
> >
> > In addition, modifications will be made to Zotero to make it easier
> > for researchers to select already archived files and web pages from
> > the Internet Archive's existing collections rather than saving local
> > copies. This will enable better referencing of "born digital" items
> > and allow for the collaborative annotation of web documents.
> >
> > Zotero Commons and Zotero 2.0
> >
> > Zotero 2.0 will allow you to sync your library's metadata to the Zotero Server.
> >
> > You will sync your metadata with the Zotero server
> >
> > With Zotero Commons you will be able to contribute public domain
> > images, texts, audio and other files.
> > You can also contribute files to the Zotero Commons
> >
> > In turn, the Internet Archive will send you any text extracted from
> > donated documents.
> >
> > --
> > Erik Möller
> >
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Oldak Quill (oldakquill at gmail.com)