{"id":414,"date":"2007-12-14T17:31:19","date_gmt":"2007-12-14T16:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=414"},"modified":"2007-12-14T17:31:19","modified_gmt":"2007-12-14T16:31:19","slug":"zotero-zotero-a-genuinely-useful-research-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2007\/12\/14\/zotero-zotero-a-genuinely-useful-research-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Zotero, Zotero &#8211; a Genuinely Useful Research Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I stumbled upon the reference management software <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zotero.org\/\">Zotero<\/a>, and it is fabulous so far. I feel like blogging about it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a Firefox plugin that allows you to capture not only bibliographical information from Amazon, but also web pages, blog posts, etc&#8230; and store them in a subject hierarchy. And export them for bibliographes later. And take snapshots of web pages. And add notes.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s why it works well:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Entries can be several places in\u00a0 the subject hierarchy. Let&#8217;s face it, the hierarchical bookmark structure of current browsers is <em>completely broken<\/em> since 1\/3 of all entries belong several places in the hierarchy (i.e. video game theory\/players and video game design \/ playtesting). (I actually wrote my own program for this a few years ago, but it was nowhere near the usefulness of Zotero.)<\/li>\n<li>It is integrated into your browser where you do your work anyway.<\/li>\n<li>It takes <em>snapshots<\/em> of web pages, so you can reference them even when they&#8217;re gone.<\/li>\n<li>Notes, web pages, books, etc. are treated on the same level.<\/li>\n<li>It understands that research work is <em>managing and navigating resources<\/em>. (As opposed to something like EndNote that seems to assume that the core of research is writing bibliographies in MLA or Chicago style.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What is missing?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>So far, the main lack is that video games are not included as a reference type. (It could even have integration with MobyGames.)<\/li>\n<li>Mass import of existing Firefox bookmarks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/zotero_screenshot.gif\" alt=\"Zotero\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stumbled upon the reference management software Zotero, and it is fabulous so far. I feel like blogging about it. It&#8217;s a Firefox plugin that allows you to capture not only bibliographical information from Amazon, but also web pages, blog posts, etc&#8230; and store them in a subject hierarchy. And export them for bibliographes later. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2007\/12\/14\/zotero-zotero-a-genuinely-useful-research-tool\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Zotero, Zotero &#8211; a Genuinely Useful Research Tool&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}