substitute Endnote within Word document by zotero
Is zotero able to substitute Endnote references within a word document? I have a long document including many endnote references and a bibliography. But as I have to give back my endnote licence soon (I will leave University), I will have not the possibility to edit or add endnote references any more. It would be great if I could use zotero instead without changing every single reference. Is this possible?
perhaps lot of us need that.
thanks
I also don't think you should expect Zotero developers (which I am not) to be responsible for it. This might be a good candidate for a separate utility.
I do think there needs to be some improvements on the Zotero end to make citations more portable.
sorry... and all the best
(I'm sorry dunkinjalki, I can't help you with that script either; just wanted to point out that you can do more with your money than putting it in Thomson Scientific's pockets).
How helpful this can be probably depends a lot on how many of the user's citations (both in Endnote and Zotero) contain DOI data.
A conversion tool (not just for libraries, but for the Word documents) is CRITICAL to speeding Zotero adoption in my view.
Could an external script extract the record numbers out of the Endnote lib and stash them into a special field (or like %%%%ENDNOTE REC NUM NNN%%%%% in an existing field) in the saved BibText version of the Endnote lib (maybe doing some heuristics to match, or assuming/requiring the Endnote lib was sorted by recnum before saving) before the BibText version is imported into Zotero? Wouldn't it then be a lot easier for a Zotero utility to go through the Word file converting each field based on info in its own lib db?
Isn't there only one Endnote lib for each Word file? Doesn't that make is simpler?
Am I confused, or is this actually a fairly simple problem?? Too bad I don't have the scripting skills...
For what it's worth, I'm very, very tired of software that orphans data or unnecessarily adopts non-standard data formats. So, I hope Zotero uses formats that are as universal (and accessible) as possible.
The ideas that people have for applications which the current developers think are outside their domain could be put on a "Software Development Auction" tab on the Zotero site. Zotero users "bid" say $10 or however much they want to commit for the project, and when a developer sees that the total has reached $?? that makes it worth their while, (ie lots of people want it and are willing to contribute to collectively pay for it) then they can step in and claim the development right and the money on delivery.
All those pages of wishful thinking could be aggregated to give developers a good idea of what people want in the particular app.
Dud ideas will not get enough money committed, but since the idea is not developed committers lose no money.
I can see a few holes in this suggestion, (Like who gets to "sign off" on the development as worth the money) but perhaps someone who is better at business plans could have a go at making the general principle workable?
That way we get our wish list by pooling our resources.