How can I include zotero-friendly metadata in a web document?

iscott
I'm general editor of an epublication called the Online Critical Pseudepigrapha. We're in the process of overhauling our web platform and I'd like to embed publication data in the site pages so that Zotero can import it automatically (like from a library catalogue or online database). Can anyone tell me what format the data needs to use?

Thanks
  • adamsmith
    http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/make_your_site_zotero_ready
  • iscott
    That's just what I was looking for. Thanks!
  • adamsmith
    I believe people aren't super excited about COinS at the moment because of its limitations - I think unAPI is what most of the experts here like best.
  • ajlyon
    COinS actually isn't as bad as I make it out to be-- for example, you can add multiple authors, despite what the spec might say. In all cases, we're still missing a good way for sites to indicate where to download a full-text PDF, so some sites will be best served by creating a design with good metadata, then creating a translator that grabs the metadata and adds the appropriate attachments.
  • noksagt
    In all cases, we're still missing a good way for sites to indicate where to download a full-text PDF
    That is not true. UnAPI+formats that can zotero can import PDFs from (e.g. MODS) work, a'la http://arc.nucapt.northwestern.edu/refbase/show.php?record=10000
  • ajlyon
    I'm glad to be wrong in this case. That then is a good reason to use unAPI.

    I still think there's room for extensions to the standards for COinS or RDFa (or changes to the way we translate them) to improve things like PDF downloads.
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