{"id":78,"date":"2017-01-04T21:47:35","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T21:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slob.coplacdigital.org\/course\/?page_id=78"},"modified":"2019-08-03T18:08:29","modified_gmt":"2019-08-03T23:08:29","slug":"zotero","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/slob.coplacdigital.org\/course\/tools\/zotero\/","title":{"rendered":"Zotero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zotero.org\">Zotero<\/a> is a reference and citation manager developed by the good folks at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. It&#8217;s a very useful tool for\u00a0any research-based writing. On the one hand, Zotero allows you to gather and organize your sources as you find them, whether you&#8217;re looking up books in a library catalogue, browsing articles in a research database, or just surfing the open web. On the other hand,\u00a0you can integrate Zotero with your word processor to insert and properly format citations to the sources you&#8217;ve found; it&#8217;ll even generate\u00a0a works cited page for you at the end.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>There are other reference and citation managers out there, but we&#8217;re going to be using Zotero for some work in the class because:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"padding-left: 30px\">It&#8217;s cost-free<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-left: 30px\">It&#8217;s cross-platform (works on Windows, macOS, and Linux)<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-left: 30px\">It&#8217;s open source, so we can extend or alter the software\u00a0to suit our needs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(This last point is key, because you&#8217;re going to be installing a couple of translators that I put together to make Zotero play better with the English Short Title Catalogue.)<\/p>\n<p>Please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zotero.org\/download\">download Zotero<\/a> and install it on your computer. You have a few different options for working with Zotero. If Firefox is your browser of choice, you can install Zotero as a Firefox extension. If you use Chrome or Safari,\u00a0you&#8217;ll need the standalone Zotero application and the extension for the browser of your choice. (We&#8217;ll be using Chrome for some other exercises, so you might consider going that route.)\u00a0You can find <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zotero.org\/support\/installation\">instructions for installing Zotero<\/a>\u00a0and a discussion of the different installation options at the CHNM site.<\/p>\n<p>Once you have downloaded Zotero, you&#8217;ll also need to install the Zotero translators I&#8217;ve made available <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/benjaminpauley\/Zotero-Translators\">at Github<\/a>. If you don&#8217;t already work with Github, the easiest thing to do will be to download a .zip of all the files: click the green &#8220;Clone or download&#8221; button, then click &#8220;Download ZIP&#8221;:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/slob.coplacdigital.org\/course\/files\/2017\/01\/github.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/slob.coplacdigital.org\/course\/files\/2017\/01\/github-300x82.png\" alt=\"Screenshot of download button at GitHub\" width=\"300\" height=\"82\" srcset=\"https:\/\/slob.coplacdigital.org\/course\/files\/2017\/01\/github-300x82.png 300w, https:\/\/slob.coplacdigital.org\/course\/files\/2017\/01\/github-768x209.png 768w, https:\/\/slob.coplacdigital.org\/course\/files\/2017\/01\/github.png 984w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Click to embiggen)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Installing these translators is just a matter of putting the JavaScript files in the directory where Zotero will go looking for them.\u00a0I&#8217;ve provided <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/benjaminpauley\/Zotero-Translators\/blob\/master\/About-these-translators.md\">installation instructions<\/a>\u00a0at Github.<\/p>\n<p>To test whether the translators are installed correctly,\u00a0perform a search at the <a href=\"http:\/\/estc.bl.uk\">English Short Title Catalogue<\/a>\u00a0and hover over the Zotero icon in your browser. You should see something like this (the first is for multiple results, the second is for a single record):<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-14 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/slob.coplacdigital.org\/course\/files\/2017\/01\/translatorinstalled-e1483549607445.png\" alt=\"Screenshot of Zotero icon in Chrome browser, activated to save multiple results using English Short Title Catalogue translator \" width=\"269\" height=\"65\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-15 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/slob.coplacdigital.org\/course\/files\/2017\/01\/translatorinstalled2-e1483549881599.png\" alt=\"Screenshot of Zotero icon in Chrome browser, activated to save single result using English Short Title Catalogue translator\" width=\"275\" height=\"65\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(For more details on how we&#8217;ll use\u00a0Zotero, see the <a href=\"http:\/\/slob.coplacdigital.org\/course\/2017\/02\/07\/from-zotero-to-a-map\/\">post on the mapping assignment<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zotero is a reference and citation manager developed by the good folks at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. 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