Re: Citation processing via Zotero + zotxt

[Ramon Diaz-Uriarte <rdiaz02@gmail.com>]

Dear Eric,


On Mon, 30-11-2015, at 12:35, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Saturday, 28 Nov 2015 at 12:16, Richard Lawrence wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> For the past few days, I've been looking more closely at using the
>> combination of Zotero [1] with Erik Hetzner's zotxt plugin [2] as a
>> means of processing citations when exporting to non-LaTeX backends.  I
>> am now thinking that this is probably our best option, but I'd like to
>> know what other people think before I sink a lot of work into it.
>
> Richard,
>
> thanks for the long and descriptive email.  What you propose does seem
> like a potentially attractive way forward especially in the context of
> minimal impact for installation.
>
> I have two questions:
>
> 1. Is Zotero open source?  I believe not so I wonder about the
>    implications of this for org.
>

Yes, it is open source (GNU GPL Affero, v.3):

https://www.zotero.org/support/licensing


And code is available from github:

https://github.com/zotero



Best,

R.


> 2. How would I use this starting from an org-bibtex database (which I
>    typically export to bibtex)?
>
> Regardless, my export requirements are usually satisfied by export to
> LaTeX so my main concern will not be org to odt or HTML but on the user
> interface aspects within org for inserting citations etc.
>
> Thanks again,
> eric


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