making my site zotero ready?

Michael Jermyn
I want to make my site zotero friendly, but I'm finding the guides very confusing.

I have bibtex files on my site, and a php script that makes html pages from them. What is the easiest and simplest way to allow zotero to grab the bib info from these html pages?
  • noksagt
    Do you have specific questions after reading http://www.zotero.org/support/make_your_site_zotero_ready
  • Michael Jermyn
    Yes, it wasn't clear to me which solution would be easiest given my setup.
  • noksagt
    The easiest would be to migrate to a webapp that is zotero-compatible and that can import BibTeX files.

    If you wish to keep the current setup, I'd suggest that you implement unAPI (so that you can use the BibTeX files that you have as-is).
  • Michael Jermyn
    I tried unAPI but had difficulty, so I tried COinS, which worked well enough. The problem is that for some reason zotero doesn't capture the date, volume, or issue fields. Any idea why? Here is an example from my page:

    <span
    class="Z3988"
    title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Focoins.info%3Agenerator&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Broadband frequency-domain near-infrared spectral tomography using a mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser&rft.title=AppliedOptics&rft.stitle=AppliedOptics&rtf.date=2009&rtf.volume=48&rft.au=J Wang&rft.au=S D Jiang&rft.au=K D Paulsen&rft.au=B W Pogue"></span>
  • noksagt
    The problem is that for some reason zotero doesn't capture the date, volume, or issue fields. Any idea why?
    Date and volume should use the 'rft' prefix & not the 'rtf' prefix. You do not include the issue field in that Context Object. Note also that your rfr_id is wrong. You should customized that for your particular site (because you use your own generator & not the generator by ocoins.info). There might be other improvements you can make, I didn't look closely.
  • noksagt
    I tried unAPI but had difficulty
    What difficulty did you have? Given that you already have the raw BibTeX, this still seems like the best option for you.

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