So right now we are searching against any disciplines that people selected in their profile settings (http://www.zotero.org/users/Sociology) as well as their real name and affiliation.
However, we're not searching against any text a user might have entered into the "about me" field in the profile settings. I'll open a ticket for this.
identi.ca allows you to add tags to your profile, which automatically assign you to the related groups. See my profile page there for a simple example.
BTW, identi.ca is a good model to examine all around; good support for Atom and FOAF, distributed support based on XMPP, etc. (and open source PHP). There's no reason my profiles shouldn't be portable between it and zotero.org.
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However, we're not searching against any text a user might have entered into the "about me" field in the profile settings. I'll open a ticket for this.
BTW, identi.ca is a good model to examine all around; good support for Atom and FOAF, distributed support based on XMPP, etc. (and open source PHP). There's no reason my profiles shouldn't be portable between it and zotero.org.
Also, will there be support for groups?
Mark