If publicly store your citations on zotero.org, you can also share these citations by means of Zotero's Read API. The documentation to the Read API may initially look a little intimidating to non-programmers, but if you take a look at the examples provided by the documentation, you see that just by adding together clearly defined 'parts' you can easily create a link to some or all of your own Zotero library.
Here's a bibliography of mine formatted using APA: https://api.zotero.org/users/5110/collections/VDAA6PSK/items?format=bib&style=apa
Looking at the API, I think the only limitation that I think I need a workaround for that you can only generate COinS if you are generating an ATOM feed.
But I'm getting ahead myself. My goal is to embed this bibliography into a Drupal page. This way I - and others if we embed a shared bibliography - can use Zotero to handle citations and let Drupal handle the rest of the page that surrounds the bibliography.
And it can be done with three lines of PHP:
And those lines loads the url of the bibliography into the body of the page:
If there is an even easier or better way to do this, please let me know.
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Is that a dynamic bibliography? In other words, if you add to it, does it update in the Drupal page? I'm guessing yes . . .
Very cool. Thanks for posting it.
Yes - I've tested it out. It's not *instantaneous* but an update I made about an hour ago has already appeared.
Hi there, great idea! Does the PHP text format need any special settings?
Hmm. I don't know if the PHP text format needs any special settings. This was just a proof of concept done within Drupal. Perhaps a test within WordPress would confirm whether it's necessary.
Hi!
interesting stuff, thanks!
Maybe you could also use JQuery's load function, than you would not need php (http://api.jquery.com/load/)
But I guess the inclusion is only possible if you set your Zotero library to public?
(I got a "forbidden" error when I tried to follow your example with a collection of mine..)
OK, please ignore my last comment ;-)
I found out about the use of API keys and that .load doesn't work across domains.. :-(
this is great, trying it out for drupal. However although the feed itself provides foreign characters correctly, e.g. https://api.zotero.org/users/19712/tags/-education/items?format=bib, something messes them up, I guess it is the php echo, so we get ć instead of ć etc.. Don't suppose you have any ideas?
Thanks, this is a really promising technique. Can you adapt it to get a slice of your Zotero collection? For instance, to return the results for a single source or a given author's works from within the collection? If so, this would be the solution to a lot of little problems for me.
Yes, you can slice you collection in a variety of ways: http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/server_api/v2/read_requests#get_requests
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