mathematica and zotero

winschel
Hi,

is anybody interested in setting up a Mathematica plugin for Zotero? The first feature I would like to do is something like the OpenOffice citation plugin to be able to cite the items from a Zotero database.

The only SQlite snippet for Mathematica I found was on

http://dev.ragfield.com/2009/05/wolframalpha-tweet-analysis.html

but haven't tested it yet... However, I was able to connect Mathematica to a SQlite database by its Database GUI, so it should be possible in principle.

The first thing to know are the sqlite queries in the OpenOffice citation plugin.

Where do I get them from?

ciao ciao
vik
  • Simon
    edited August 26, 2010
    The OpenOffice plug-in does not directly issue any SQL requests at all. It is a Firefox extension that implements a set of interfaces (see zoteroIntegration.idl). When you click a button in the OOo toolbar, it tells Firefox to connect to OOo to get item information, show a dialog, and create a bibliography. OOo itself does not need to issue any SQLite queries.

    If there is an interface that you can use to script a running instance of Mathematica externally, you could potentially just implement the interfaces described in zoteroIntegration.idl in an XPCOM component, which you could write in C++ (see the WinWord plug-in), Java (see the OOo plug-in), Python (see the MacWord plug-in), or, in Firefox 4 beta, JavaScript with js-ctypes. If you are interested in doing this, the dev list is probably the right place for further discussion.

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