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ownCloud Documents is collaborative editing of rich-text documents.
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Citation management and zotero #244

Open caitifty opened 10 years ago

caitifty commented 10 years ago

Opencloud's facilitation of multi-person editing of odt documents is excellent, however lacks one feature essential to academic users - citations. Open/libreoffice already has excellent integration with zotero, an open source, browser-based citation management system. To this non-programmer, it seems like opencloud and zotero could be made to work together, which for academic collaborators would be a HUGE feature, jumping it way ahead of any other collaborative tool I've ever seen.

menelic commented 10 years ago

Agreed, though I think this would imply an implementation of zotero standards in ownclould that would be great even if they were not added to documents: It would be great if owncloud could serve as a back-end for both aspects of the zotero database. It works for the actual files, but not (yet?)for the syncing of bibliographic data across zotero instances.

I d also say that collaborative editing with author traceability between sessions (eg as in EtherPad) is at least as important to make owncloud a tool for academic collaboration.