Bug#709925: RFP: zotero
Package: wnpp
Version: N/A
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: zotero
Version: 4.0
Upstream Author: George Mason University
* URL : http://www.zotero.org
* License : (LGPL, closed)
Description:
A powerful citation tool. (But can also be used as a powerufl bookmark
manager with notation capabilties. Provides bookmarks.html import and
export)
Zotero.org server is not required. Zotero webbrowser plugin can be set
to use 'standalone binary'.
Standalone binary uses a local datastore. Compare to 'server'.
The zotero 'server' is optionally supported with the webbrowser plugin.
The server can be from zotero.org or from a privately owned zotero
server. The privately zotero server code from github but still looks
experimental (it uses .php and apache)..
Links of interest
http://www.zotero.org/ (main homepage, hosts runnable Linux tarballs)
https://github.com/zotero
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zotero
http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/dataserver_setup (Has instructions
but seems outdated.. This is the private zotero server code, there may
be more updated instructions lurking in googlegroups. The software
works perfectly fine with the standalone binary+webbrowser plugin
firefox, and others)
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/zotero-dev
Software is very stable and useful for researchers/journalists.. can
also be used for it's other capabilities..(provides a quick citation
template for wikipedia/mediawiki.. is very rich on 'export' formats)
I think this is worth the effort of packaging, the program looks well
made and very useful. I actually think it's kickbutt, debian needs more
software like this :)
-Scott
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