{"id":3499,"date":"2006-11-08T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-08T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2006\/11\/zotero-endnote-for-e-research\/"},"modified":"2011-02-05T07:44:25","modified_gmt":"2011-02-05T07:44:25","slug":"zotero-endnote-for-e-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2006\/11\/zotero-endnote-for-e-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Zotero: endnote for e-research?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week, one of my favourite blogs, BoingBoing,<\/a> had an interesting link<\/a> to a new web based research tool<\/a>. I’ve been having a go over the weekend.<\/p>\n


\nZotero is an extension for firefox for versions greater than 1.5 (non inclusive). I’ve been giving it a go in firefox 2.0. Its cross-platform, and it doesn’t seem to slow things down at all. Once installed, the word “zotero” appears on the status bar at the bottom of the screen. Clicking on it will bring up a three column listing of your references.
\nYou can import your endnote database by exporting it from endnote as text in RefMan (RIS) format. When you visit your library catalogue (this works for Sydney uni, not sure about others), it will detect both when you have a listing up (say you wanted to add all the books with the keyword “warlpiri”) or when you have a single item up on the page. Clicking on the icon in the right in the address field will add the reference to your collection. With listings, it seems that you can use the greater flexibility of your web based library catalogue to generate listings of references, but at least with Sydney Uni’s library, you can only import 10 references at a time. Endnotes database connection facility is more powerful, but you can only query a small number of fields.
\nAlso very good is that you can append files, notes and tags to your references. So when you link to a pdf document, you can download the file and link the reference to your local copy. Zotero can store the file for you, or you can link to the file and store it where ever you like. Tags are great for folk-onomy organisation of your references, and if you cut and paste interesting sections of text into the notes then you can rediscover them when searching through your references (much like you would in endnote).
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\nIf you’re interested in referencing web pages for blogging or for academic work (which I seem to be doing more and more), then this is a great tool. When you add links you can automatically take a screen shot and you don’t have to worry about the whole “captured on” stuff as well. Zotero integrates quite well into your regular browsing habits, and extends plain old bookmarking to make may random web-wanderings more like proper e-research!
\nI’ve still got a bit of playing round to do (I’ve got to see how it behaves with repositories) but for now, I’m sold. It doesn’t make endnote redundant, but if\/when they introduce word processor integration, it may well. Now I’ve just got to check out Heurist<\/a> (developed here at Sydney Uni) to see how it stacks up…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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