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November 04, 2006
Zotero (zo-TAIR-oh) is a Firefox 2.0 extension that captures Web pages (and files and PDFs), finds the citation info on those pages and puts them into standard bibliographicv form, lets you take notes, and lets you search. In future versions, it plans on letting you publish your collection and will integrate with Microsoft Word and others. It's free and it's Open Source. I haven't tried it yet, but I'm liking the sound of it a lot. (Here are the specs for my dream system, which I once called Notetella, but which I suppose now I'd have to call note.licio.us because, well, that's the law.) (Thanks to Luis Villa for the link.) [Tags: zotero research bibliographic ] Posted
by D. Weinberger at November 4, 2006 09:13 AM
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>I'd have to call note.licio.us
or rather "note.orio.us" ;-)
Posted by: Markus Pirchner | November 4, 2006 10:32 AM
Zotero is indeed a great idea, but it is very library/collection specific for grabbing references, and still pretty darn buggy. I tried it last week to be able to offer it up at a seminar on free and open source software for the grad student, and had to deinstall it before the presentation. It just doesn't want to work with the University of Toronto library system, nor Scholar's Portal (which is the system used by almost all Canadian universities as a front-end to the various scholarly journal collections like ProQuest, Ebsco, JSTOR, ERIC, etc).
According to some of the Zotero forum posts, it may behave better when laid on a "clean" install of Firefox, which means losing (or re-importing) bookmarks, login cookies, configuration preferences, extensions, and all that other Firefox customization goodness. For the time being, I'll stick with Biblioscape - the big brother (paid, but not terribly expensive) version of the free bibliographic software, BiblioExpress.
Posted by: Mark Federman | November 4, 2006 12:56 PM
BTW, have had a look at Evernote?
Posted by: Mark Federman | November 4, 2006 12:58 PM
The licio.us law expired in 2005. This year, it'd either have to be NoteSpace or NoteTube ;-)
(Hm, I guess MyNote or YouNote could work too!)
Posted by: Jay Fienberg | November 5, 2006 01:28 AM