Migrating my data to a website?

sfbaywalk
I'm sure this has been discussed. So I apologize in advance.

I did a google scholar search on the name of my institute. Then I pasted journal article titles into pubmed, offloaded the new entries with tags (key words), abstracts and, when I could grab them, PDFS.

Now I have 1,500 unique entries representing a good share of our institute's history.

I demo'd this to the director and he wants to put it on our website. We can't put the PDFs because of copyright issues, but how do I think about this and how do I explain this to our IT department?

What do I say to explain what I want? Should be searchable I would think? What would I export this to so the IT/web people can pick it up?
  • noksagt
    This has, indeed, been discussed at length. Please search for more info, but a summary: You have many options:
    • Use Zotero 1.5's online library sharing feature
    • Export a static HTML file
    • Export using a standard bibliographic format & import into a third party reference database
  • sfbaywalk
    Hmm .. Guess I should start by upgrading and studying the features.
  • sfbaywalk
    edited November 25, 2010
    In the meantime, if you are inclined to provide something more to the question, such would be appreciated.
  • RintzeRintze
    edited May 1, 2009
    For noksagt's third point, this might be of some interest:

    http://www.zotero.org/blog/publish-zotero-collections-online-with-zotz/

    I don't think a lot of website visitors will be interested in going through a whole list of 1500 references, so a way to data mine the references would probably be welcome. Zotero's (new) library sharing feature is still rather limited (the only way to limit yourself to certain references is by means of collections made in your Zotero library, and online sorting is not yet possible). A single HTML-file would be even worse, while the Citeline/Zotz option seems to offer quite some power (like sorting, support for tags, timelines).
  • fbennett
    sfbaywalk, short != trite. Your IT people should be able to do something with the suggestions of noksagt and Rintze. If they can't, come back with more specific questions, and you'll get more specific answers. Positive feedback isn't that hard once you get the hang of it. :)
  • noksagt
    edited May 1, 2009
    I meant to be concise rather than laconic. The three options I've listed are quite different from one another, so more practical advice is not really possible without more details on your needs, limitations, resources, and plans.

    Do you want to self-host, host at zotero.org, a third party site, or does it matter? While self-hosting may give you more control & present a more cohesive website, in increases support and effort on your end.

    Option 1 is currently hosted exclusively at zotero.org (though there are plans to make embedding libraries easier). Zotero 1.5 is in beta (but is fairly well-tested). The web interface lacks a number of things (searchability/sortability/customizability/scrapability), all of which are in various states of development.

    Option 2 would be self-hosted, with very little support needed. It might not have enough searchability & might not be easy enough to upgrade.

    Option 3 includes both sites outside of zotero & webapps that you can run on your server. If you want to self-host, you may have many issues which influence which app you will self host.

    I personally self-host my library on refbase (of which I am a codeveloper).
  • bdarcus
    Just to underline what others here said rather nicely, the "trite" comment was really not cool. Please think again before posting this sort of thing.

    On the substance of your issue, one obvious question is, what is behind your current website?

    I'm currently working on something similar for my academic department, where I want to incorporate publications into the site. To do that, I'm using Drupal and its biblio module. So I just feed it RIS files.
  • sfbaywalk
    My apologies. Was definitely grumpy last night ... must be the flu.

    I'll study the things you are saying.

    The ideal scenario would allow search on author, and search on pubmed key words (tags). Then the results would allow a reading of the abstract.
  • mark
    edited May 2, 2009
    Sounds like Zotz would be good as a first pass. It provides you with a Citeline bibliography in no time, which has all the features you need. This is, of course, hosted at Citeline. Your IT guys will probably want to self-host, in which case the various alternatives outlined by noksagt will come into play.

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