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25 Oct, 2007

There Has to Be a Better Way: Zotero and Research 2.0 – EDUCAUSE2007

Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: EDUCAUSE2007| Student Tools| Teacher Tools| Web 2.0

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…

Export into multiple formats

Save Pages locally and organize according to a hierarchy that is easy for you.

Add notes and comments to pa

Plugin for MS-Word and Open-Office that allows you to insert citations… GREAT! Replaces Refworks and Endnote… but it’s FREE and incorporates searching all sorts of online databases and webpages!

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.)

11 Responses to "There Has to Be a Better Way: Zotero and Research 2.0 – EDUCAUSE2007"

1 | Alisa Cooper

October 25th, 2007 at 4:19 pm

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

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January 17th, 2008 at 8:19 am

[...] 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 [...]

November 7th, 2008 at 9:01 am

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.

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Trial and error is the only way to go about learning stuff.

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January 29th, 2009 at 5:43 pm

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Do you know which formats you can export to?

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