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Bruce said: "I would absolutely hate to see any app displaying all my collections in a table view" I understand this. However, as outlined above there are use cases for this, so I guess it depends on your needs whether you'd like to see a col…
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I agree wholeheartedly with Sean & Josh that one has to draw a line somewhere between an ideal model and the reality of implementation, and I'll face the same trouble when trying to implement such a hierarchical model in my own bibliographic app…
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Please note that I didn't ditch the "collection" hierarchy entirely (I consider it useful), I was just emphasizing that a "collection" can also be a valid resource (similar to an article, letter, etc). Therefore, all of its members should be treated…
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Bruce said: "we need to decide the policies for when something becomes a formalized 'type.'" As per my previous post, I'd prefer if item types would merely be a pre-made set of relationships. I.e. Zotero would offer the most used citation cas…
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Thanks Josh and Sean for working on this! Like Bruce I have problems with the distinction between ancillary item types and actual item types. There are use cases where it would be handy to enter the ancillary item types as actual items (i.e. stand-a…
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Regarding the interface question on how to implement a GUI that facilitates a hierarchical data model: Consider how a relational database such as FileMaker is doing it. You can easily add data fields from a parent record to a child record's layout (…
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Josh, thanks for your detailed post, I fully agree with you that a hierarchical data model poses many interface & compatibility issues which are far from being trivial. Your post very much describes the reasoning why we haven't adopted a hierarc…
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I like how this problem is solved in the Mac OS X address book: with an entry selected, holding down the option (alt) modifier key higlights all collections which contain that particular ressource. This even works when having multiple entries select…
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I hope that Zotero will eventually support the unAPI spec (http://unapi.info/). Then, any Wordpress theme could be easily integrated with Zotero via use of the unAPI Wordpress plugin: http://unapi.info/news/archives/19
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AFAIK, ISBNs are 10 characters long; they may end in 0 to 9 or an X. UPC symbols are 13 digits long, all numbers, and starting with 978. Using isbn.nu, your WorldCat examples work for me: http://isbn.nu/0813534208 http://isbn.nu/9780813534190…
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unAPI support in Zotero would allow Zotero users to automatically grab PDFs that are associated with any record displayed on an unAPI-enabled site. http://unapi.info/ Since the Zotero folks seem to be committed to supporting open standards…
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If you just want to convert your Zotero data (exported, say, as RIS) to an OpenDocument Spreadsheet that's suitable for use with OpenOffice, you could also goto the refbase online demo at: http://demo.refbase.net/, then perform steps 4-6 from noksag…