Tags on the web based 'my library' (for output to api, pipe, etc.)

sjgknight · February 4, 2012

Within the web based library, it would be nice to be able to add 'tags' as a view field.

I think it'd be a useful feature regardless, but just to add context the reason I want to do be able to do that is I'd like to be able to export sets of items with their tags such that I can easily manipulate them, in particular I'd like to be able to visualise tag use across items. I talk about it a bit here http://edubrowse.wordpress.com/2012/02/03/visualising-tag-data-from-zotero/ with some links to the kind of visualization I'm imagining (so if anyone has any suggestions on that they'd be appreciated too!)

mronkko · February 4, 2012

You should take a look at the server read API. That can be used to export items and their tags.

http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/server_api/read_api

sjgknight · February 5, 2012

Yes, from what I understand though when I return the set of all items, tags aren't returned. So it would require a call for all items, then a call for the tags associated with each item in that set.

dstillman · February 5, 2012

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dstillman · February 5, 2012

But post to zotero-dev if you have further API questions.

sjgknight · February 5, 2012

Thanks Dan