Zotero, Wordpress, and Shared Bibliographies...

jgrn307
Zotero'ers: We are currently setting up a lab website using wordpress, and we'd like the following functionality:

A wordpress page which contains an sortable/searchable list of publications that are shared by the lab. Ideally we'd like to avoid a system where we are constantly exporting "new" publications, and would like it to be updateable by anyone with an account on our wordpress site (e.g. any researcher in the lab). I was hoping Zotero would have some or all of this functionality, but I'm not sure how to go about this. Here are my more specific questions:

1) Is there a wordpress plugin that somehow interacts with zotero's online bibliographies and can make sortable/searchable lists based on this bibliography?
2) If so, is there a way to make a shared library between multiple zotero users (as opposed to everyone sharing a single zotero account). I know citeulike has this functionality via its "groups" system, but we like how zotero makes the collection of citations seamless between the web and the online database, so we'd like to stick with it.

Thanks!
  • dstillman
    is there a way to make a shared library between multiple zotero users
    http://www.zotero.org/support/groups

    Groups require Zotero 2.0, which supports server syncing.
  • jgrn307
    Thanks! How about a wordpress plugin/some way to share the library with the world?
  • dstillman
    Well, you can have public Zotero groups, and non-members who have Zotero can pull items back into their libraries.

    You can also already pull Atom feeds from libraries, and I believe some people are already using feed-reading plugins to embed library items from those feeds in their blogs.

    In the near future you'll also be able to pull formatted references with embedded metadata. Building a WordPress plugin that pulled and embedded those would likely be trivial.
  • ewout
    In wordpress you can use a sidebar widget to publish any feed, but have a look at this too: http://www.patrickgmj.net/node/178
  • jgrn307
    Interesting, but we were hoping to have something that is less RSS-y and more like a sortable database, e.g. one where you sort by (minimally) first author and/or publication year. I like the idea of all new pubs showing up in an RSS feed, as well. To give you an idea, we are trying to port this monster over to wordpress but have it linked up with an online DB with the grouping functionality like Zotero.org:

    http://www.cstars.ucdavis.edu/pubs-main.htm

    You'll note the last time the pubs were updated was in 2006, because it required a Dreamweaver programmer who had to pull teeth to get all the lab members to send in individual endnote databases, and export the combined DB to an html file. Total nightmare. And once the DW person left, so did the ability to update that website.
  • noksagt
    No such functionality exists now.

    You could have a web programmer write something to parse the feed into something more usable or wait until the API is improved to allow some of this or can use some third-party web-based reference database.
  • alandsloane
    I've used MIT's CiteLine (citeline.mit.edu) to get a sortable-but-html database. You should be able to access http://citeline.mit.edu/9099e64bfa8234b451b460b9a4e850de0a7ba03d/methodology.html for an example, but if not there are others linked from the home page.

    Although the Zotz plug-in seems broken right at the moment, you can still export bibtex from Zotero and upload it to your CiteLine account. (BTW I was rummaging around on the CiteLine web-site recently and there are signs of a resumption of work on Zotz).

    With ref to "ewout"s post - there's another site referenced at that link that seems to achive a result very close to the request in the original post of this thread - http://aphdigital.org/blog/. I notice that Zotero picks up the embedded metadata (COINS?)and puts up the icon indicating that references can be downloaded. Very cute!
  • matt_price
    Dan said:

    In the near future you'll also be able to pull formatted references with embedded metadata. Building a WordPress plugin that pulled and embedded those would likely be trivial.

    --------

    did that come true? I would love to be able to do this in a course website; so that topic pages can include any references form the course bibliography that are appropriately tagged. If it's so easy to do this, it might even be possible to put the code i na template rather than writing a whole plugin (something I haven't tried to do yet).
  • kseaborn
    Not sure if this will suit your purposes, but check out Zotpress: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/zotpress/
  • tramullas
    I've posted a brief tutorial in Spanish on how to integrate Zotero references in WordPress content with Zotpress, http://tramullas.com/2012/02/28/integrando-zotero-en-wordpress/
  • dmiller11
    Thank you kseaborn!
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