I came across Zotero about 6 months ago and thought it looked very promising. I installed it then, but have rebuilt my computer several times since then and lost it in one of the rebuilds. When I saw this session I decided I had better check it out again. It looks like they have been working hard on it… let’s see…
Notes:
- Scholarship has been radically transformed with the onset of web tools and massive online databases!
- Word processing has changed the way people write and think about writing…
- On yeah… don’t forget… IT’S FREE for everyone, everywhere! I love these type of tools!!
- Many translators that can grab metadata and import it into your Zotero Library
- UNC Libraries, New York Times, Amazon… pretty much anywhere…
So what does the future hold? Zotero 2.0 – Zotero SERVER!
- Beta available the beginning of next semester… new options and features!
- This will be available to sync my collections and share my collections with others!
- Group ability – Set up micro- and macro- groups for disciplines.
- Recommendations
- Bibliographic Feeds (RSS) and ability to make certain things public.
- API’s for building tools to work with all this.
Wow… this really seems like a great tool! (Again.) I need to work on getting this out and known in the University! So as a start… if you don’t have it yet… download it today! (Download link on the right hand side at the top.)
Jeff,
That is funny. I got the same Tweet that you just posted about Educause and realized as well that we were in the same place. Looks like we are the only two people blogging AND tagging AND following Tweets. I’m surprised. I thought there would be more. I’ll check out your blog. It looks interesting.
Alisa
[...] I had a chance to try out the new reference tool as well. Although I still prefer Zotero, it is still pretty nice and many people will love [...]
Not sure when this started, but I just noticed that Amazon.com has added support for tagging content. I haven't had a chance to explore it deeply, but it certainly seems noteworthy. My intitial glance at it seemed to suggest that it might be something less than full on support for folksonomies, but like I said, I haven't had a chance to explore it fully yet.
Thanks,very interesting and useful post
After a bit of trial and error I found that, for example, an LOC call number search that goes directly to the correct resource works. But if a search goes to a browse view (say if the call number is wrong in the last digit, and there's no matching item in the catalog), and the user clicks a result from that view, the page for that record won't be recognized by Zotero.
Trial and error is the only way to go about learning stuff.
Zotero is awesome i definitely have to agree fully about what your saying.
yup, I would have to agree.
Hi Guys, thanks for putting up such a site. I've been looking for a site with indepth knowledge on tech. had a similar problem but got it fixed. Thanks
Do you know which formats you can export to?
Its very interesting and important thing. And i am agree with this research. Thanks for it.