Can Zotero functionality be embedded into a website?

kconheady
Hi,
Can Zotero functionality be embedded into a website?
Thanks
  • DWL-SDCA
    Yes, if you mean that visitors to pages on the site can download metadata with one click of the Zotero icon. More information is needed for a better answer.
  • DWL-SDCA
    See:
    https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/exposing_metadata
  • kconheady
    Ah...more info...I am looking to recreate this webpage (minus the timeline display format) using supported software that is kept up-to-date...

    http://pe10ratio.com/timeline.html

    The current format isn't scalable as the number of entries continues to grow with the passage of time. It is clumsy to use and isn't "mobile".

    Thanks,
    Kay
  • adamsmith
    edited March 18, 2016
    Zotero's timeline functionality isn't any more up to date as this and not build for automated webpage integration, so if you want an easy-to-create timeline, the answer is no.

    Zotero does have a full API that would allow you to build pretty much anything you want, but you'd actually have to build it:
    https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/web_api/v3/start

    edit: sorry, didn't see the "minus the timeline" part. So you can integrate Zotero into a website, yes. Here are a bunch of plugins doing various versions of that: https://www.zotero.org/support/plugins#website_integration
  • DWL-SDCA
    edited March 18, 2016
    My database-driven website implemented this with unAPI/MODS. As I remember it required 8 to 10 hours of work by our developers. I'm not positive about the amount of time because we also added other metadata (GS/Highwire) to webpage headers at about the same time.

    SafetyLit is a free service, presented without advertising. For an example of how this works, visit the site, select an item, and use the view source utility in your browser.

    This link will take you directly to a journal article record:

    http://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_512813_24

    You can see the availability of Zotero's select from a list (folder icon) by

    1) visiting the www.SafetyLit.org home page
    2) entering a textword term into the search box field at the upper left
    3) clicking the search button.

    Try the term "SR2S" (that is a shorthand way to obtain all of the articles and reports that concern Safe Routes To School, a child pedestrian safety program.
  • adamsmith
    @DWL -- but you're "just" providing Zotero integration. You're presumably not building SafetyLit using the Zotero API, which seems to be the question.

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