Web access to zotero data
I know this is planned, but in the meantime I was considering creating a quick and extremely dirty web app strictly for myself to view a copy of my zotero sqlite file online. Just wondering if anyone here has pre-empted me on this and is wiling to share their work privately?
Naturally, using the native zotero database would preserve more information, but I think there is a non-trivial amount of work to get a usable web frontend (if it was simple, the zoteo devs would already have one out ;-)).
To prevent reinvention of the wheel, I'd probably encourage either waiting for the official web tool, using a web tool which already exists (Wikpedia lists several if you don't like refbase), or to use some other way to keep remote access possible (portable firefox, or keeping a copy of the sqlite file on a server which you could copy into other profiles).
Re difficulty and reinventing wheels: I really did mean quick and *extremely* dirty. The Zotero guys have to consider security, presentation, robustness, and a million other things I don't for my own purposes. It might be near-trivial using Django (which I half-know), or Rails (which I don't). But I don't have much time available, and haven't even glanced over zotero's db schema yet. It would however be entirely trivial if someone else had already done it ;)
Another approach would be to use Zotero's report code to semi-automate producing a static copy of everything. Linking it up to some kind of index page would be the trickiest bit.