Re: Making RefDB cooperating with Zotero

Quoting Bruce D'Arcus <[email protected]>:

> On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 9:41 PM, Wei-Wei Guo<[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> RefDB is powerful in managing reference database. If RefDB could
>> managing the database of Zotero directly, which is a sqlite3  
>> database, it will boost RefDB a lot.
>
> I think the ability to easily move data around between systems is
> probably the better approach.
>

I second that. I've had a look at Zotero's internal data model, which  
isn't really documented anywhere except in the SQL script which  
creates the database. At first glance there are so many differences to  
the data model currently used by RefDB that it would come close to  
rewriting the app in order to make it handle Zotero databases.  
Moreover, the Zotero developers discourage external access to the  
database as Zotero may end up in an undefined state if the database is  
fiddled with while the browser is open.

How good are Zotero's import and export capabilities?

regards,
Markus


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