Is it possible to use group libraries to distribute files?
Is it possible to use group collections to distribute attached files? This would be simply awesome. I currently store all my articles in Zotero and if it was possible to do this, it would so much simplify the process to share material for people participating in a course that I am running. If this is not possible now, is it planned? One potential approach would be to use a command line bittorrent client to share the files and launch this from Zotero.
Now that the group collections feature is implemented, perhaps it would not be too difficult to allow several Zotero instances to simultaneously access and edit the same database (including attached files) within a private (corporate/university/whatever) network?
Perhaps not everyone will have convenient access to a webdav server?
Have I missed out on something?
Hugo
Good work on 2.0! Everything else is great!
But the thing is that you should then implement one Webdav folder per group, and you then will have to deal with multiple access.
You are correct.
Thanks.
I reiterate the original question:
"files cannot currently be added to group libraries" - does the 'currently' mean it is somewhere in the pipeline?
First of all: Zotero is a fantastic product. We plan to use Zotero in our research group to maintain all our publications.
The group feature is really what we want, but the lack of support for binary files is quite frustrating.
So I'll repeat the question from asbake: "Are there any prospects for accessing pdf and other files from a group library in the (hopefully near) future?"
cheers
Ben Bolker
I don't think there is a way around the copyright issue.
Either a group is open and doesn't share copyrighted files, or it's closed and it does. Third possibility would of course be to share files and keep it quiet. It's not as if that's not happening in a multitude of places anyway.