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Add Zotero integration for more effective citation handling #353

Open joelostblom opened 3 years ago

joelostblom commented 3 years ago

For more convenient citation management in Jupyter Books, it would be great if there was a Zotero integration. This has existed for a while for word processors such as Google Docs, and was also added to the RStudio preview recently. The main idea is that clicking a menu item (or striking a shortcut key) brings up the Zotero search and selected items are automatically inserted both as a an in-line reference and a bibliography item.

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One way to support this could be thorugh the better-bibtex extension as shown here for other editors (although it looks like it might be deprecated soon), but it would be less accessible sinec it require this additional extension. A list of potentially useful Zotero plugins can be found here.

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choldgraf commented 3 years ago

I think this is a great idea - though probably not solveable at the Jupyter Book level, since it is just a Command Line Interface, not a UI. We definitely do want to see more support for Jupyter Book in something like Jupyter Lab, and Zotero integration there seems like a very natural request. I'll move this to meta/ so that we can track the request since it won't involve a change in the Jupyter Book repo

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joelostblom commented 3 years ago

Thanks Chris! I imagine that the implementation would be a JupyterLab extension rather than an addition to JupyterLab's core. I think the people interested in this are probably mostly those that are also interested in JupyterBook rather then JuptyerLab, so I hoped someone here would be interested in either making an extension or knows of an existing one that I have missed. Thanks for moving it to meta instead of closing.

choldgraf commented 3 years ago

for sure - a JupyterLab extension for this would be great :-)