To use groups with optional My library sync with Zotero server

projecturfu

For to use groups to share with colleages we must sync My library with Zotero server . It's not comfortable, better it will be not mandatory, as in fact there can be intimate or secret things in My library.

dstillman

This will be possible in a future version of Zotero.

projecturfu

Dan, thanks for the reply. Can you say in what time such version will be?

projecturfu

I would like to continue the theme "Security of personal information and the usability of the Zotero". So, a person can store in Zotero information that can not be moved beyond the personal computers which he use. The need for Zotero data synchronization on computers: at work, at home, at notebook with which he walks - remains actual.

projecturfu

It would be useful 2 possibilities:
1) ONE - PER - ONET synchronization, with no use Zotero server ;
2) the technology of Zotero data independent image, all collections or selectively; Some utilities / function should allow synchronization between Zotero on your computer and portable image on an external drive. This must be synchronization, rather than just copying.

adamsmith

you can easily do this with files simply by linking them (and then using whatever external sync function you want -- be it Dropbox, be it something rsync run you set up yourself).

Syncing that doesn't involve Zotero server isn't going to happen for metadata, though (absent a full local Zotero data server install, which some people have--the code is open--but which is a major undertaking).

projecturfu

Thank you, Adam.
Yes, this is about sync without Zotero main or local server. As in other application such interaction is called one-per-one (computer - to -computer). So one per one sync without Zotero server. The reason that this is necessary, - a security of personal (group) data of researcher.

adamsmith

right, and I'm telling you it's almost certainly not going to happen given the infrastructure necessary for sync.