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About Zotero
Zotero is a project of the Corporation for Digital Scholarship. It was created at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.
Credits
Director
- Sean Takats
Lead Developer
- Dan Stillman
Senior Developer
- Faolan Cheslack-Postava
Developers
- Abe Jellinek
- Martynas Bagdonas
- Tom Najdek
- Michal Rentka
- J. Ryan Stinnett
- Adomas Venčkauskas
Design
- Johannes Krtek
Alumni
- Roy Rosenzweig (Executive Producer)
- Fletcher Hazlehurst (Developer, 2020–2021)
- Simon Kornblith (Senior Developer, 2006–2016)
- Kim Nguyen (Site Design, 2010-2012)
- Ben Schneider (Graduate Research Assistant, 2013-2015)
- Debbie Maron (Community Outreach, 2011)
- Dan Cohen (Co-Director, 2006-2010)
- Jeremy Boggs (Site Design, 2006-2011)
- Trevor Owens (Technology Evangelist, 2007-2010)
- Connie Sehat (Co-Director, 2007-2009)
- Fred Gibbs (Developer, 2007-2009)
- Matt Burton (Developer, 2008-2009)
- Jon Lesser (Developer, 2008-2009)
- Andrew Howard (Technical Support, 2009)
- Elena Razlogova (Project Guidance, 2006-2008)
- Shekhar Krishnan (Evangelist, 2007-2008)
- Michael Berkowitz (Developer, 2007-2008)
- Asa Kusuma (Intern Developer, 2007-2008)
- Ben Parr (Intern Developer, 2007-2008)
- Ramesh Srigiriraju (Intern Developer, 2007)
- Kari Kraus (Technology Evangelist, 2006-2007)
- Josh Greenberg (Co-Director, 2006-2007)
- David Norton (Developer, 2006-2007)
Community Contributors
Zotero benefits from a strong user community. Exceptional contributions have been made by:
- Bruce D'Arcus (Citation Style Language, user support)
- Emiliano Heyns (Better BibTeX, client improvements)
- Sebastian Karcher (user support, wiki documentation, CSL styles, web translators, translations)
- Sylvester Keil (anystyle.io, arkivo, web services integration)
- Joscha Legewie (ZotFile, client improvements)
- Avram Lyon (user support, Zandy, web translators, wiki documentation)
- POBrien333 (CSL styles)
- Julian Onions (CSL styles)
- Jason Puckett (third-party documentation)
- Mikko Rönkkö (ZotPad, user support)
- Will Shanks (plugin development, client improvements)
- Michael Steele (Zotero Standalone installer improvements)
- Aurimas Vinckevicius (web translators, client improvements, user support)
- Brenton M. Wiernik (user support, wiki documentation, CSL styles)
- Rintze Zelle (Citation Style Language, user support, wiki documentation, CSL styles, translators, translations)
- Philipp Zumstein (translators, Scaffold, user support)
Localization
For the list of contributors to each locale, see the Zotero project on Transifex.
Spell-checking in Zotero relies on dictionaries from Mozilla contributors.
Third-Party Software
Zotero depends on these exceptional open-source projects:
- ACE Editor
- Bluebird
- Citation Style Language
- citeproc-js (Frank Bennett)
- Firefox (Mozilla)
- Fugue icons (Yusuke Kamiyamane)
- RNV
- Pastel SVG icons (Michael Buckley)
- pdf.js
- ProseMirror
- React
- Silk icons (Mark James)
- Timeline (SIMILE Project)
- SingleFile
- Tabulator RDF parser
- Tango Desktop Project icons
- TinyMCE
- Xpdf
Funding Acknowledgments
Zotero was generously funded by the United States Institute of Museum and Library Services, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Initial Advisory Board (2006-2008)
- Raymond Yee (University of California, Berkeley)
- Dan Chudnov (Yale University)
- Abby Smith (Council on Library and Information Resources)
- Clifford Lynch (Coalition for Networked Information)
- David Seaman (Digital Library Federation)
- Martha Anderson (Library of Congress)
- Matthew MacArthur (Smithsonian National Museum of American History)
- Wally Grotophorst (George Mason University Library)
- Kathy Perry (Virtual Library of Virginia)