How to configure Plone that it plays nicely with Zotero?
Plone and Zotero does not play nicely together out of the box. But you
can configure Plone in two simple steps.
What is Zotero?
»Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a
free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share
your research sources. It lives right where you do your work—in the web
browser itself.« This quote from the homepage of Zotero says it all.
Zotero is an extremely useful Firefox add-on to organize your
bibliography. It works like the bookmark function in the browser but it
additionally extracts metadata from the web source and stores it in a
way that you can later use it as a citation database. There are word
processor
plugins
so that you can directly cite in LibreOffice or Word. You can export the
Zotero library to BibTeX or sync it with a
BibTeX-Database so that
you can use Zotero entries in LaTeX or
LyX.
When you do research in an online library or on Amazon you can directly
import the bibliographic information into Zotero. If you ever submitted
a paper you’ll understand why Zotero is my favorite Firefox add-on.
Doing research is as easy as clicking on the “Store in Zotero” button
right in the address bar of the browser.
After clicking the marked button the webpage in inserted into the Zotero
database. The entry looks like shown in the screenshot on the left. As
you can see it automatically inserts title, author and type (News Item)
of the entry. Zotero further stores the URL and the date when you
accessed the page. Zotero even extracts the keywords and stores them as
“tags” (see below)
When you setup a plain Plone site you won’t find the »Store in Zotero«
button in the address bar of Firefox. You can add the page to Zotero
with another button, but the created entry will miss some information
eg. the authors name. So how to configure Plone that it plays nicely
with Zotero?
As Zotero uses Dublin Core Metadata to extract information you have to
switch this feature on. Go to the Site settings (@@site-controlpanel)
and tick the box »Expose Dublin Core metadata«. After saving the »Store
in Zotero« button will appear in the address bar of Firefox. But you
will see that Zotero does not store the name of the author but only the
names of the contributors. This is due to a security feature of Plone.
By default no information about the creator of a content item is
exposed. So…
…head over to the Security settings (@@security-controlpanel) and tick
the box »Allow anyone to view ‘about’ information«. This will expose the
name of the creator as a DC.metatag which Zotero can evaluate.
If you just want to have the Dublin Core metadata in the source code but
don’t want to show the authors name on the rendered page you can hide
the viewlet »plone.belowcontenttitle.documentbyline«.
Thats all!