FYI
Rick Uttich
http://employees.oneonta.edu/uttichrm/
A group
of scholars at
The goal
is to bring search and organizational tools to humanities scholars who might
not have the skill or interest to otherwise use them, by embedding them in the
Web-browser software the scholars are already using, says Daniel J. Cohen, an
assistant professor of history and director of research projects at the Center
for History and New Media at George Mason University.
With
Zotero, which requires the latest version of the Firefox browser, users can import Web pages,
and citation information from them, into a personal filing system, among other
features. A written statement on the project's Web site says the software
"includes the best parts of older reference-manager software (like EndNote)—the
ability to store full reference information in author, title, and publication
fields and to export that as formatted references—and the best parts of
modern software such as del.icio.us or iTunes, like the ability to sort, tag,
and search in advanced ways." --Jeffrey
R. Young