Placing an "add to zotero" button/link near references

luciferc
Maybe it is not a Zotero specific question, but OpenURL related, but I am not sure, and I use Zotero, so I ask it here.

Is it possible to place an "Add to Zotero" button/link near the references in a webpage? Using this link one could add the selected reference to Zotero.
I maintain the site of my department. If there are several references on a page (e.g. a publication list), than I think it would be useful to be able to provide a direct link or button for every paper listed. If you bring up zotero and you want to select only a few papers out of e.g a hundred, than it is not so comfortable, at least for me. Is there a solution?
  • dstillman
    It's possible you could do this by having the buttons send RIS files with the proper MIME type to the client, and if Zotero was configured to intercept RIS downloads (the default setting), it would import them automatically.

    Longer-term, we could probably come up with better solutions that didn't rely on RIS and allowed for JS-based adding without additional requests (for example, via the zotero:// custom protocol handler). Coupled with an easy way to test for the presence of Zotero, sites could dynamically enhance pages for use with Zotero.

    I've created a ticket.
  • noksagt
    I don't see why a webpage author should have to explicitly test for Zotero. It'd be much cooler if Zotero rewrote webpages similar to the way LibX can--adding a custom link in the page where it finds COinS or unAPI or eRDF.
  • dstillman
    It'd be much cooler if Zotero rewrote webpages similar to the way LibX can--adding a custom link in the page where it finds COinS or unAPI or eRDF.
    I almost mentioned that as a possibility, but I've always been a bit wary of dynamic modification of third-party web pages (in general—not just for Zotero). If this was a feature that people wanted, though, we could certainly discuss it. If we did it, it'd obviously be an optional feature that users could turn off.
  • noksagt
    It would address luciferc's concern about more easily selecting just a few references and wouldn't require additional zotero-specific work from websites & the interface would be able to more homogeneous.

    There are downsides to page modification, but I think objections could just as easily be made for being able to test for Zotero (there could be privacy concerns in addition to the above).

    If page rewriting were to be implemented, rather than "off" and "on," perhaps the settings could be to manually invoke it (through a key shortcut/button/context menu) or to have it automatically on.

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