[LTER-im] zotero for lter sites

Mon Aug 6 19:31:29 PDT 2018

I'm very interested in it and I think it's would be very useful.

I'd vote for using Google Docs as the medium for the document.  I don't
know if there is already a Zotero Best Practices for LTER doc.

I'd be interested in an informal working group.  I can't take on much right
around now ;-)

I'd like to work on that API some more too.

On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 7:31 PM, John Porter <jhp7e at virginia.edu> wrote:

> Tim,
>
> 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).
>
> 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.....
>
> 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.
>
> 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! :)
>
> -John Porter
>
>
>
> On 8/6/2018 2:46 PM, Elizabeth Dobbins wrote:
>
> Hi;
>
> 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.
>
> 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 research.gov.  Our PIs
> use EndNote completely separately from my efforts, and it would be nice to
> merge them somehow.
>
> Am willing to serve on a working group if only to answer these questions.
>
> Liz
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 9:55 AM, Whiteaker, Timothy L <whiteaker at utexas.edu
> > wrote:
>
>> Dear IMs,
>>
>>
>>
>> tl;dr Ignore if you aren't interested in Zotero.
>>
>> Let's establish Zotero best practices for LTER sites. Who's in?
>>
>>
>>
>> ----------------
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 1.       Does a "Zotero for LTER Sites" best practices document exist?
>> If not, then I want to start one, so…
>>
>> 2.       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?
>>
>> 3.       What's the best medium for the document?  Google Docs?
>>
>> 4.       Should we set up a working group or do this informally?
>>
>> 5.       Who's interested?  Stace, Marty Downs, John Porter, J. Walsh?
>>
>>
>>
>> Some things I'd like answered in a best practice doc:
>>
>> 1.       How best to fill out metadata to support research.gov
>> 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
>> research.gov.  There are also character limits in research.gov,
>> apparently.
>>
>> 2.       What collections do sites find most useful, if any?  NES
>> <https://www.zotero.org/groups/2124507/nes-lter/items/collectionKey/KMQGQ2SW>
>> has "NES-LTER Conference Presentations" and "NES-LTER Journal Articles"
>> collections under a broader "NES-LTER Product" collection, while BLE
>> <https://www.zotero.org/groups/2211939/ble-lter/items/> currently has
>> everything under the default Library.
>>
>> 3.       How should we name our collections or organize our work to
>> facilitate sharing our items with the LTER NCO group
>> <https://www.zotero.org/groups/2055673/lter_network>?  For example,
>> should our three letter acronym be included in the collection name?
>>
>> 4.       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.
>>
>> 5.       Should we prefix our group name with "LTER". Group searches
>> <https://www.zotero.org/search/type/group> 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!).
>>
>> 6.       How should we describe our items to support applications that
>> our website end users will see such as ZotPress
>> <https://wordpress.org/plugins/zotpress/> for WordPress sites and this
>> JavaScript solution
>> <https://github.com/twhiteaker/Zotero-JavaScript-Search-Client> for
>> other sites?
>>
>>
>>
>> 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!
>>
>>
>>
>> Tim Whiteaker
>>
>> Research Scientist
>>
>> The University of Texas at Austin
>>
>>
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