zotero is a firefox plugin (hence a wrapped javascript object) that uses an sqlite database. there is another firefox zotero plugin for openoffice which adds a toolbar to openoffice and lets you choose the citations and styles from within dialog boxes and dynamically change/update them.

So we can either

1. access it through firefox while firefox is open
2. or write a zotero plugin to export in a format more suitable for context (.bbl?). Zotero also exports to various other formats including its own Zotero RDF.
3. or have an plugin in an editor which lets us choose citation directly from an open firefox instance

or a combination of these.

zotero is only 4 years old and was downloaded 4million times in last year according to its website http://www.zotero.org . Considering that it is used only by academic researchers it is a huge phenomena.

Salil

From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Salil Sayed <salilsay@yahoo.com>
Sent: Thu, February 11, 2010 9:32:57 PM
Subject: Re: [NTG-context] zotero

On 11-2-2010 19:55, Salil Sayed wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Today I checked zotero plugin for openoffice and was very impressed with its functionality and ease of use. Currently I have to export my bibliographies to bibtex format from zotero and then use it through the bibtex module in context. I think this is a awkward way.
>
> Can there be a closer connection? a zotero plugin or context module? Or will it be an editor function?
>
> Forgive me if i am ignorant of any development. I searched.

as i never use bibliographies i have no clue what zotero is but we could probably read it in (asusming it's xml) just like a bibtex file

Hans

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