Export to filemaker?
Has anyone tried to export their Zotero collection to Filemaker Pro? Here's why I ask: I'm a librarian, and I've got a little order card database where I keep books I'm planning on ordering. The database is nice because I have it formatted so it prints out the order cards I need instead of having to write them out by hand. What I'd like to do is create a collection of books in Zotero and then export them to my database so that the fields populate automatically. The problem right now seems to be that Zotero is a flat file (? - am I right about this?), so there are no distinct fields to map onto my existing database.
Any suggestions or tips?
Thanks!
Any suggestions or tips?
Thanks!
Citation metadata in Zotero is stored in a SQLite database, not a flat file. The problem in writing a converter from/to FMP (or any other database) is that there is more than one way to represent the data. Did you create the FMP schema yourself? Perhaps you can write (or hire someone to write) a translator from one of the common bibliographic formats to a FMP import format?
@matthias - maybe I'll look into an SQLite tool for export as tab-delimited to save myself the Endnote step.