If you're at all comfortable with Drupal, I suggest looking into the Biblio module: <http://drupal.org/project/biblio> Mark A. Matienzo Digital Archivist, Manuscripts and Archives Yale University Library On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Michael Lindsey <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi all, > We periodically create bibliographies to support faculty projects and are at > the point where we either want to roll our own re-usable software or adopt > something from the wild. We need something that can understand library > metadata on the way in and on the way out. We also need something that can > be available as a data store to different webapps, e.g. a subject guide, a > faculty publications webapp, etc. In other words, we need the datastore to > be queryable from a script. > I'm looking at Zotero, which seems to be hot on the harvesting end, but > seems to be conceived of as a tool for a single researcher at their browser. > I would need to flash Zotero's SQLite instance to a db table on my > webserver so the data would be available to scripts. Ideally, my harvesting > team could interact with the web application directly so there would be no > harvesting/export/import latency. > Any ideas if this is something we've already tackled in libraryland? > Thanks, > Michael Lindsey > Law Library, UC Berkeley >