Integrate Zotero sources into Trac wiki pages

Description

This is a plugin used to show and cite a local ​Zotero database. Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite and share your research sources. This plugin adds an item Zotero to the main navigation bar.

Key features:

• Collection tree is created and always shown, which based on ​jQuery plugin: Treeview.
• Show all items in a collection.
• Show a item with all fields, attachment, and related items.
• Cross links to authors, year, publisher.
• Clouds for authors, year, publisher, which based on tags clouds in TagsPlugin.
• Cite item(s) in the Wikis and tickets.
• ​TracLink provider. Examples: [zot:key], [zot:RAXETNDM see], [zot:0_RAXETNDM see].
• Search database.

Start page:

Collection:

Item:

Publisher cloud:

Cite list:

This plugin implements the following 3 macros: ZotCite, ZotRef and ZotRelated.

• Cite a reference with key:

  [[ZotCite(TTQ685TT)]]
  

• Cite multiple references with keys separated by comma ','. The keys can also start with '0_':

  [[ZotCite(TTQ685TT, GCSENNQ8, 0_CVJBVNCN)]]
  

• You can add any other words except comma after keys to let them easier to look:

  [[ZotCite(CVJBVNCN(Marcellos&Single1975))]]
  

• Add argument 'ait' or 'authorintext' to cite them as 'Author (year)':

  [[ZotCite(GCSENNQ8(Rebbecketal.2007),ait)]]
  

• Show reference list:

  [[ZotRef]]
  

• Show all related items:

  [[ZotRelated(5RUPZP36)]]
  

Bugs/Feature Requests

Existing bugs and feature requests for TracZoteroPlugin are here.

If you have any issues, create a new ticket.

Download

Download the zipped source from here.

Source

You can check out TracZoteroPlugin from here using Subversion, or browse the source​ with Trac.

Installation

Install as follows:

• Grab the source from SVN.
• Build and install an egg from this source.

Configuration

• The Zotero database (folder including zotero.sqlite) must be located in the htdocs directory of your Trac environment.
• Add a section [zotero] in your trac.ini file, in which you set the path of the Zotero database:

  [zotero]
  path = Reference
  

  • if you have different database name other than 'zotero.sqlite', you can set 'dbname':

    [zotero]
    path = Reference
    dbname = zotero.sqlite
    

  • The columns to show items could be specified by 'fields' and 'labels':

    columns = firstCreator, year, publicationTitle, title
    

  • The links of attachments are rendered in two ways: http:// and zotero://. The default is http://. You can set 'attachmentlink' as 'local' to render attachment as zotero://:

    attachmentlink = local
    

Recent Changes

10361 by helend on 2011-06-21 13:43:06

Add util.py and bug fix

10360 by helend on 2011-06-21 13:26:29

Add basic search module

10359 by helend on 2011-06-21 13:13:31

Add basic search module

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Author/Contributors

Author: helend
Maintainer: Bangyou Zheng
Contributors: