Is it a Zotero item URI or Zotero Select Link or ...?

mhucka · November 30, 2020

I'm sorry for what is probably a dumb question, but what is the correct/preferred way to refer to a zotero://select link? Is it proper to call that it Zotero item URI? Or is that different from the zotero://select link? Or is there an even better name for that?

(Context: I'm developing an open-source utility to write those URIs/links, and want to know how to describe them in the documentation.)

adamsmith · November 30, 2020

I don't know if there's an official rule, but I think "zotero://select link" (speak: Zotero select link") is what I'd use. Zutilo uses "select item link" which is also fine.

The item URI (which is referred to as such in the JSON, so that one actually has a clear identity) takes the form http://zotero.org/users/2433/items/RJVRSIIA

mhucka · December 1, 2020

Thanks for the info!