Export Zotero data to OpenOffice literature database

Azon
Hi,
my Question is: Is there an easy way to export my Zotero library to the OpenOffice literature database?
Zotero is very helpful for me to create entries from pdfs or pubmed, but I dont get along with the OO-plugin. The integrated function for literature entries seems to work much better.
I tried all export filetypes, but cant find one which is easy to load in OO.
Thanks for your help.
  • adamsmith
    edited August 20, 2012
    You're much better of troubleshooting the Zotero Ooo integration and make it work for you - it's several years of development ahead of Ooo's citation module, which I'm not even sure is developed anymore.

    But if you really don't want to - does Ooo say which formats it will import? Zotero exports pretty much all industry standards.
  • noksagt
    The bibliographic database in OO.o/LibreOffice has many limitations & the lack of ability to import standard formats is one of them. refbase and JabRef & other programs can export to an opendocument spreadsheet that has the same schema as the bibliographic database.

    But I tend to agree: Zotero works for many people & had plenty of advantages over the built-in bibliographic database. Take some time to troubleshoot it.
  • adamsmith
    refbase and JabRef & other programs can export to an opendocument spreadsheet that has the same schema as the bibliographic database.
    I haven't tried this, but if that's the case you could just use jabref as a go between, export from Zotero to bibtex and from jabref to Ooo. I don't think that qualifies as "easy", but it'd likely work.

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