Zotero friendly website for dummies

juanblanco

I'm not a programmer and my knowledge of website design is very limited. I am running a small local scientific journal and, as I consider Zotero one important tools for scientific information and it is one of my favorite tools as an end user, I would like to make it Zotero- friendly. I have tryed rdf and COinS, mostly taken from examples, with no success in the first case and with some success in the second case (only while I maintained a (false) DOI in the span but not when I remove DOI information (our articles do not have DOI).
Our web has a page for each published article. Is there any method (or template) that can be used to include the bibliographic information in a way that Zotero recognizes?

adamsmith

I don't think we have anything beyond
http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/exposing_metadata
It would seem to me that it would be in your interest to find a way to add google/highwire metatags in the header of your article pages, so that they're found by google scholar.
Zotero (and some other programs, e.g. Mendeley) will detect and import using that data.

DWL-SDCA

Getting your metadata into the header of each of your articles might be a rather simple process for an expert or it could be impossible without significant changes to your web publishing system.

If your journal issues and articles are published via a database driven site where your metadata gets fed to the webpage as it is rendered and sent to your readers; it would likely be very straightforward to have a web services company do this for you. The group that does the heavy lifting for my bibliographic database site added unAPI MODS, COinS, and Google Scholar tags to my pages. I was billed for eleven hours of work. That was $950.00.

If you send me an email (at the address listed when you click on my username) and send me the url to your journal; I will be glad to comment further.