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- | This documentation page is a draft, a work in progress, so if you can help refine it, please do so. | ||
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- | ====First Question: What Do You Want Your Users To Get?==== | ||
- | Before discussing options for exposing your content to Zotero, ask yourself "Do you want users to capture data about individual pages of your site, or do you want them to capture information about a resource, or several resources, discussed on that page?" | ||
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- | Let's clarify this with two examples. Consider an article in an online newspaper and a bibliographic record in a library catalog. In the first case one wants to get information about the page the user is looking at; information about the specific article. In the second case, the page in a library catalog, the page itself is uninteresting; | ||
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- | Many of the strategies discussed below can fit either case, but it is important that you identify exactly what you want users to use Zotero to extract from your site. | ||
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- | ====Three solutions of increasing complexity and flexibility==== | ||
- | * **Use a webapp that is Zotero-ready: | ||
- | * **Embed Open Stranded Metadata:** If those content management systems do not suite your needs this is probably your best option. Zotero supports several open standards for embedding metadata in web pages. | ||
- | * **Build a specific Zotero translator for your site:** This option is a bit more complex and is advised only when a limitation from the options for embedding metadata makes it necessary. This option will require a solid understanding of javascript and specifically how Zotero' | ||
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- | ====Two best options for embedding Metadata: | ||
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- | * **unAPI:** As described on the unAPI website, "unAPI is a tiny HTTP API for the few basic operations necessary to copy discrete, identified content from any kind of web application. " For our purposes unAPI allows you to serve up bibliographic information in a variety of different bibliographic formats for Zotero to automatically ingest. *<Which formats work in this case? BibTeX? RIS? MARC? MODS?> | ||
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- | * **COinS:** The official COinS website describes COinS as " | ||
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