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    <p>Tim, <br>
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    <p>We use Zotero (through ZotPress) for publishing to our WordPress
      site, but use EndNote as the backend database, periodically
      updating Zotero from it... (Liz, let me know if you want a copy of
      my instructions for updating Zotero from EndNote). I had
      considered using Zotero so PI's could enter their own
      publications, but soon realized that dealing with the duplicates,
      misspellings and other problems meant as much editing time as my
      data entry time if I do it myself (my latest ploy, use Google
      Scholar to find the pub, then download the Endnote Citation record
      for import). <br>
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    <p>For Research.gov we've used a modified output filter in
      EndNote.... It requires customization because Research.gov is very
      picky about text (ask Margaret for details). Let me know if you
      want to see the EndNote filter.....</p>
    <p>At the network level, I'd need to get an idea from the PI's and
      students as to how they would like to use a network-wide
      bibliography. I think a major use tends to be for counts of
      publications in different categories for reports, but I don't know
      that too many people would actually just be browsing the
      bibliography. <br>
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    <p>Given the good web services API for Zotero we might be able to
      create composite bibliographies relatively automatically - just by
      sharing the API Key for site bibliographies with the LTER
      Biblioczar..... But that assumes everyone is OK with Zotero and we
      can actually find a Biblioczar! :)</p>
    <p>-John Porter<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/6/2018 2:46 PM, Elizabeth Dobbins
      wrote:<br>
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      <div dir="ltr">Hi;
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        <div>I'm interested in this.  I've got a zotero account (under
          my own name) that includes a lot of publications from legacy
          projects and background info. I've also got it wired into our
          WordPress site. We don't do anything fancy. No subset
          collections etc.  Our main goal is just to have a
          comprehensive list that can be searched. <br>
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        <div>I guess I'm most interested in how to divvy those up for
          official LTER stuff. And I hadn't thought of how to use it
          with <a href="http://research.gov" moz-do-not-send="true">research.gov</a>. 
          Our PIs use EndNote completely separately from my efforts, and
          it would be nice to merge them somehow. </div>
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        <div>Am willing to serve on a working group if only to answer
          these questions.</div>
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        <div>Liz</div>
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        <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 9:55 AM,
          Whiteaker, Timothy L <span dir="ltr"><<a
              href="mailto:whiteaker@utexas.edu" target="_blank"
              moz-do-not-send="true">whiteaker@utexas.edu</a>></span>
          wrote:<br>
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                <p class="MsoNormal">Dear IMs,</p>
                <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                <p class="MsoNormal">tl;dr Ignore if you aren't
                  interested in Zotero. </p>
                <p class="MsoNormal">Let's establish Zotero best
                  practices for LTER sites. Who's in?</p>
                <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                <p class="MsoNormal">----------------</p>
                <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                <p class="MsoNormal">I'm getting started with Zotero as
                  a reference manager for BLE LTER.  I'd like to
                  identify best practices for using Zotero to catalog an
                  LTER's publications. 
                </p>
                <p class="m_9041672155653732090MsoListParagraph"><span>1.<span
                      style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">      
                    </span></span>Does a "Zotero for LTER Sites" best
                  practices document exist?  If not, then I want to
                  start one, so…</p>
                <p class="m_9041672155653732090MsoListParagraph"><span>2.<span
                      style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">      
                    </span></span>Would it be reasonable to create such
                  a document?  Or would each site's implementation
                  likely be too different to warrant an attempt at
                  standardization?</p>
                <p class="m_9041672155653732090MsoListParagraph"><span>3.<span
                      style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">      
                    </span></span>What's the best medium for the
                  document?  Google Docs?</p>
                <p class="m_9041672155653732090MsoListParagraph"><span>4.<span
                      style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">      
                    </span></span>Should we set up a working group or do
                  this informally?</p>
                <p class="m_9041672155653732090MsoListParagraph"><span>5.<span
                      style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">      
                    </span></span>Who's interested?  Stace, Marty Downs,
                  John Porter, J. Walsh?
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                <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                <p class="MsoNormal">Some things I'd like answered in a
                  best practice doc:</p>
                <p class="m_9041672155653732090MsoListParagraph"><span>1.<span
                      style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">      
                    </span></span>How best to fill out metadata to
                  support <a href="http://research.gov" target="_blank"
                    moz-do-not-send="true">research.gov</a> reporting?
                  For example, for non-peer-reviewed conference
                  presentations, the Item Type must be Conference Paper
                  and you should use Proceedings Title instead of
                  Conference Name since Conference Name doesn't import
                  into <a href="http://research.gov" target="_blank"
                    moz-do-not-send="true">research.gov</a>.  There are
                  also character limits in <a
                    href="http://research.gov" target="_blank"
                    moz-do-not-send="true">research.gov</a>, apparently.</p>
                <p class="m_9041672155653732090MsoListParagraph"><span>2.<span
                      style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">      
                    </span></span>What collections do sites find most
                  useful, if any?  <a
href="https://www.zotero.org/groups/2124507/nes-lter/items/collectionKey/KMQGQ2SW"
                    target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">
                    NES</a> has "NES-LTER Conference Presentations" and
                  "NES-LTER Journal Articles" collections under a
                  broader "NES-LTER Product" collection, while
                  <a
                    href="https://www.zotero.org/groups/2211939/ble-lter/items/"
                    target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">BLE</a>
                  currently has everything under the default Library. 
                </p>
                <p class="m_9041672155653732090MsoListParagraph"><span>3.<span
                      style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">      
                    </span></span>How should we name our collections or
                  organize our work to facilitate sharing our items with
                  the
                  <a
                    href="https://www.zotero.org/groups/2055673/lter_network"
                    target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">LTER NCO
                    group</a>?  For example, should our three letter
                  acronym be included in the collection name?</p>
                <p class="m_9041672155653732090MsoListParagraph"><span>4.<span
                      style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">      
                    </span></span>Should we make an IM Zotero account or
                  use personal accounts to manage the group?  NES (user
                  lter-nes-info) and BLE (user ble-im) independently
                  decided to make generic accounts for their site IMs.</p>
                <p class="m_9041672155653732090MsoListParagraph"><span>5.<span
                      style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">      
                    </span></span>Should we prefix our group name with
                  "LTER". <a
                    href="https://www.zotero.org/search/type/group"
                    target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">
                    Group searches</a> start from the beginning of the
                  group name, so you won't find the BLE-LTER group if
                  you search for "LTER", but you will find the LTER
                  Network group.  If I named my group LTER-BLE then you
                  could find my group by searching for LTER (but not if
                  you searched for BLE!).</p>
                <p class="m_9041672155653732090MsoListParagraph"><span>6.<span
                      style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">      
                    </span></span>How should we describe our items to
                  support applications that our website end users will
                  see such as
                  <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/zotpress/"
                    target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">ZotPress</a>
                  for WordPress sites and
                  <a
                    href="https://github.com/twhiteaker/Zotero-JavaScript-Search-Client"
                    target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">this
                    JavaScript solution</a> for other sites?</p>
                <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                <p class="MsoNormal">OK, the answer to #5 is probably
                  "whatever you want".  But dammit I don't want to have
                  to think about any of this. I just want a best
                  practices doc to show the way!</p>
                <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                <p class="MsoNormal">Tim Whiteaker</p>
                <p class="MsoNormal">Research Scientist</p>
                <p class="MsoNormal">The University of Texas at Austin</p>
                <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
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John H. Porter
Dept. of Environmental Sciences
University of Virginia
291 McCormick Road
PO Box 400123
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123
ORCID: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3118-5784">http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3118-5784</a></pre>
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