What format to use when exporting bibliography for permanent storage in rep.
Hi,
I am just finishing my dissertation and thank you thank you Zotero. We have been together since the early days, through many bugs, smaller or bigger catastrophes, last moment surprises, but that all is forgotten and all that will be remembered are the good times. So, this is also cudos to developers for remarkable stability improvement over time. I feel quite confident about the Zotero not letting me and my students down moments before submitting. My paper has 20+ pages of references, all in live citations in 200 pages long document in Word. Updating the document, even inserting citation takes some time but it works!
QUESTION BEGINS HERE>>>
I am trying to make a difference and besides attaching full datasets to my paper I would like to include my bibliography also as a digital attachment (separate file) to my dissertation.
1. Which of the many formats offered in Export Library would you recommend to use for this purpose? I'd like that people could import the bibliography in their managers if they want. (I don't want to export the full texts stored along because of copyright issues.)
2. Is there a smart way how to export to RDF/etc... format references in the document (as not all references in my Zotero collection dissertation folder made it to the paper?
Thank you for your advice and for all the great work!
I am just finishing my dissertation and thank you thank you Zotero. We have been together since the early days, through many bugs, smaller or bigger catastrophes, last moment surprises, but that all is forgotten and all that will be remembered are the good times. So, this is also cudos to developers for remarkable stability improvement over time. I feel quite confident about the Zotero not letting me and my students down moments before submitting. My paper has 20+ pages of references, all in live citations in 200 pages long document in Word. Updating the document, even inserting citation takes some time but it works!
QUESTION BEGINS HERE>>>
I am trying to make a difference and besides attaching full datasets to my paper I would like to include my bibliography also as a digital attachment (separate file) to my dissertation.
1. Which of the many formats offered in Export Library would you recommend to use for this purpose? I'd like that people could import the bibliography in their managers if they want. (I don't want to export the full texts stored along because of copyright issues.)
2. Is there a smart way how to export to RDF/etc... format references in the document (as not all references in my Zotero collection dissertation folder made it to the paper?
Thank you for your advice and for all the great work!
@bwiernik excellent tool, saved me a ton of time, thank you!
@emilianoeheyns thanks for the advice, I will go with that!
Another innovative solution you could consider is to simply create a public Zotero group with your dissertation bibliography. That allows export in any format that Zotero supports.
@Rintze I don't fully understand the 2nd point. After import, the duplicated items would have new item IDs -- how would I tie these to the original ones?
Matching up items between the import file and the imported items could be done by comparing their CSL JSON representation (assuming Zotero doesn't tweak it). Alternatively, Reference Extractor could easily add a separate tracking ID upon extraction, e.g. in Zotero's Extra field. Then you could match on that.
If that's the case, the ideal path would keep the item URIs already present in the citations somewhere so that after import the match can be done deterministically. The ref-extractor could perhaps optionally add them to the
extra
field; a matcher running either inside Zotero or outside with a mapping from extra-URI to actual-URI (which could be generated from inside Zotero) could then very easily swap them.Alternately it could all be done inside Zotero in one go -- user hands a docx to Zotero (through a plugin or not), which scans for items the same way ref-extractor does it, imports them, and modifies the docx as it goes.
edit: ah I see you just thought of the same thing.
edit: ah no wait -- personal library, and if you copy to a group lib, keys would change.