To give some background: I am interested in this for google docs integration, as discussed elsewhere. My plan was to use scannable cite. However, collaborators didn't really like the scannable cites, plus they don't hyperlink back to zotero (or become clumsy if you add the link). So I am working on a Google apps script that turns scannable cites
{.... author, year .... zg:...}
into hyperlinks
<a href="link?cite=...">Author, year</a>
where link is either a http:// link to zotero.org, or a http:// link to our site, that translates it into a zotero link (see above). (Straight zotero:// links won't work in Google Docs.) With zotero stand alone, e.g. in Chrome, this works fine (via external protocol requests). The http://zotero.org links of course work anyway. The scannable cite is uri encoded and stored in a cgi parameter, so it doesn't upset the url, but it allows us to recover the scannable cite, e.g. for amending, or prior to document export.
This is all a bit hacky, and won't be sophisticated at all. There's more sophisticated google docs integration going on (see zotero-dev), so I am just aiming for a least effort version that can be abandoned in favour of something better as soon as that's available! Bjoern
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To give some background: I am interested in this for google docs integration, as discussed elsewhere. My plan was to use scannable cite. However, collaborators didn't really like the scannable cites, plus they don't hyperlink back to zotero (or become clumsy if you add the link). So I am working on a Google apps script that turns scannable cites
{.... author, year .... zg:...}
into hyperlinks
<a href="link?cite=...">Author, year</a>
where link is either a http:// link to zotero.org, or a http:// link to our site, that translates it into a zotero link (see above). (Straight zotero:// links won't work in Google Docs.) With zotero stand alone, e.g. in Chrome, this works fine (via external protocol requests). The http://zotero.org links of course work anyway. The scannable cite is uri encoded and stored in a cgi parameter, so it doesn't upset the url, but it allows us to recover the scannable cite, e.g. for amending, or prior to document export.
This is all a bit hacky, and won't be sophisticated at all. There's more sophisticated google docs integration going on (see zotero-dev), so I am just aiming for a least effort version that can be abandoned in favour of something better as soon as that's available!
Bjoern