Exporting notes with their respective tags

mdkai

Hello,
i am currently working on a workflow to import data from a Zotero Lib into MAXQTA for analytical work.

As of now, i have a library filled with various books, articles and magazine elements and these also have multiple notes assigned to them. Each of these notes again have multiple keywords assigned and i need them to be exported with each note.

A RIS export would result in the correct N1 tag for my notes, but there seems to be no way of having the keywords per note, as RIS is not supporting that.

So my question is, what possible ways of exporting notes and their related keywords do i have ?

Thanks in advance
Kai

adrisoacha

Hi mdkai,
I have the same requiremente. I need my notes with the corresponding tags for an analysis. I was trying to export in CSV but doesn't appear either.
Do you any progress on that matter?
Thanks,
Karen

brianjd

I have the same requirement. I must export my notes (child notes of bibliography items) along with the tags of each of those notes. The only tags I'm capable of exporting are the tags for the parent bibliography item. I'm not able to export tags for the child notes in any of CSV, CSL JSON, or RIS formats. Any progress on this?

dstillman

There's no real progress to be made. Most standard bibliographic data formats just don't provide any mechanism for tags/keywords on notes.

Zotero RDF includes them, but it's pretty hard to parse.

brianjd

I see them in the Zotero RDF now. Although, I think for my purposes I need to just query the zotero.sqlite directly. For example, I'd like to filter for notes with a certain set of tags and return a table of these notes as:

| parentItemFirstCreatorLastName | parentItemPublishedYear | noteTitle | noteText |

I followed some of your recommendations [1], downloaded DB Browser for SQLite [2], located and opened my zotero.sqlite, wrote a query involving ~15 tables, executed the query and returned the desired results. Quite a bit of work.

I later found that you guys suggest [3] using the JavaScript API for these sort of purposes. So I'll give that a try.

[1] https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/client_coding/direct_sqlite_database_access
[2] https://sqlitebrowser.org/dl/
[3] https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/client_coding/javascript_api