This is a summary of planned Zotero releases.

Zotero 1.5: Server sync
July 2008

Sync Preview now available.

This version of Zotero offers users the ability to sync their individual collections with the Zotero Server. Through server syncing, users can access and update their Zotero libraries from multiple locations. In order to support synchronization, this version of Zotero also facilitates data conflict resolution.

Zotero 1.5 also offers significant performance improvements over Zotero 1.0.

Dependency: Firefox 3

Zotero Website: Repository
September 2008

By this date, a new repository for Zotero styles, translators, and plugins will be introduced. Changes to the Zotero website will allow the user community to submit requests more easily, to find up-to-date information about Zotero extension development, and to become readily involved in developing styles, translators, and plugins.

Zotero Website: Account management
End of September 2008

Users will be able to login to a Zotero website account and see their collections. They will also be able to create groups and share data with group members.

Zotero 2.0: Server sync with groups
October 2008

Zotero 2.0 will offer users the ability to share collections with others through the Zotero Server. Users will be able to create collaborative groups and share notes and tags along with their bibliographic metadata. Data will be available at different access levels (e.g. read-only).

Zotero 2.1: Recommendation systems

In 2.1, the Zotero Server will offer users a recommendation service for books, articles, and other scholarly resources based on the content in your Zotero library.

Zotero 3.0: Zotero-Internet Archive alliance – the “Zotero Commons”
Timeline under development

Users will be able to drag and drop items into the “Zotero Commons” – a dedicated part of the Internet Archive’s servers – that will be stored in subdirectories of the Commons named for the donors. In addition, this feature will also enable users to identify others who are working with or annotating the same content, fostering new collaboration opportunities.

Other

• Word 2008-compatible plugin
  Development complete. Now testing.