<div dir="ltr">Hi;<div><br></div><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.</div><div><br></div><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">research.gov</a>. Our PIs use EndNote completely separately from my efforts, and it would be nice to merge them somehow. </div><div><br></div><div>Am willing to serve on a working group if only to answer these questions.</div><div><br></div><div>Liz</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><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">whiteaker@utexas.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear IMs,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">tl;dr Ignore if you aren't interested in Zotero. <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Let's establish Zotero best practices for LTER sites. Who's in?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<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.
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<p class="m_9041672155653732090MsoListParagraph"><u></u><span>1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><u></u>Does a "Zotero for LTER Sites" best practices document exist? If not, then I want to start one, so…<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="m_9041672155653732090MsoListParagraph"><u></u><span>2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><u></u>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?<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="m_9041672155653732090MsoListParagraph"><u></u><span>3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><u></u>What's the best medium for the document? Google Docs?<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="m_9041672155653732090MsoListParagraph"><u></u><span>4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><u></u>Should we set up a working group or do this informally?<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="m_9041672155653732090MsoListParagraph"><u></u><span>5.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><u></u>Who's interested? Stace, Marty Downs, John Porter, J. Walsh?
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<p class="MsoNormal">Some things I'd like answered in a best practice doc:<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="m_9041672155653732090MsoListParagraph"><u></u><span>1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><u></u>How best to fill out metadata to support <a href="http://research.gov" target="_blank">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">research.gov</a>. There are also character limits in <a href="http://research.gov" target="_blank">research.gov</a>, apparently.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="m_9041672155653732090MsoListParagraph"><u></u><span>2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><u></u>What collections do sites find most useful, if any? <a href="https://www.zotero.org/groups/2124507/nes-lter/items/collectionKey/KMQGQ2SW" target="_blank">
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">BLE</a> currently has everything under the default Library.
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<p class="m_9041672155653732090MsoListParagraph"><u></u><span>3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><u></u>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">LTER NCO group</a>? For example, should our three letter acronym be included in the collection name?<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="m_9041672155653732090MsoListParagraph"><u></u><span>4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><u></u>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.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="m_9041672155653732090MsoListParagraph"><u></u><span>5.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><u></u>Should we prefix our group name with "LTER". <a href="https://www.zotero.org/search/type/group" target="_blank">
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!).<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="m_9041672155653732090MsoListParagraph"><u></u><span>6.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><u></u>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">ZotPress</a> for WordPress sites and
<a href="https://github.com/twhiteaker/Zotero-JavaScript-Search-Client" target="_blank">this JavaScript solution</a> for other sites?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<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!<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Tim Whiteaker<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Research Scientist<u></u><u></u></p>
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