The new beta release of Zotero includes native user interface support for Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, and Norwegian (and even supports Serbian, although Firefox doesn’t have a Serbian-localized build). A big tip o’ the hat to the BabelZilla community for helping to make Zotero a multilingual tool.

Interested in translating Zotero into *your* language? Please visit our localization documentation.

We’re pleased to announce that the latest beta release of Zotero is now available. Existing users who downloaded from zotero.org can update manually via Tools->Add-ons in their Firefox web browser. The update includes many new translators, features, enhancements, bug fixes, and international language localizations that we’ll be spotlighting over the next few days. For a comprehensive overview of what Beta 3 offers, see the extensive changelog.

CHNM’s Roy Rosenzweig and Josh Greenberg recently talked about Zotero with Matt Pasiewicz of EDUCAUSE at the Fall 2006 Task Force Meeting of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI). The interview is now available as an audio recording online. Listen in as Roy and Josh discuss everything from microformats to tagging to the Semantic Web. The 15-minute interview also previews some of the up-and-coming social functionality of Zotero 2.0, including recommendation systems and collaborative spaces.

We’ve added new documentation that covers the discrete pieces of code that make it possible for Zotero to automatically grab metadata from the Web. The new guide will be of interest both to developers who wish to write their own translators and to users who just want to know how they work.