Ensuring zotero compatibility for my site

Hi,

I'm designing a website for a publisher that will be putting many of its books online, and I'd like to make sure that zotero sees each book's page properly and grabs the proper metadata so students & scholars can cite the book properly. I looked on the "For Developers" section and couldn't find documentation about preparing a site for zotero compatibility. I understand zotero does a good job of sniffing out metadata and that translators can be written, but I'd prefer not to risk zotero sniffing incorrectly or force someone to write a specific translator for my site -- I'd rather instead to make my site compatible from the get go.

Any tips? Thanks!
Joe
  • Hi Joe, Zotero supports standard methods to identify and fetch metadata from a web site, please have a look at the COinS and unAPI specs available at:

    http://ocoins.info/
    http://unapi.info/

    COinS is very easy to implement, but somewhat limited (with regard to Zotero integration). unAPI is much more powerful and flexible, but takes a bit more implementation work, but it shouldn't be too difficult for a web developer to get it working. You may also want to search the Zotero forums for threads about COinS and unAPI.
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