Thanks Ere. Yeah, I found that information too , but it's not enough.
Maybe I should contact the Zotero developer(s)? Anyone know the best
way to do that?
Ere Maijala wrote:
> This was the only information I found when I developed unAPI support for
> our MetaLib installation:
> <http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/1229/unapi-support/>. Based on my
> experimentation and looking at the code, if my memory serves:
>
> 1. At least the formats mentioned in the forum post. I believe it uses
> the docs attribute to distinguish formats, as type can be e.g.
> application/xml for multiple formats.
>
> 2. Weird, but I don't remember how. I ended up providing only MARCXML,
> DC and RIS, because it chose MODS over MARCXML if it was available and
> did something that sucked. Things may have changed, this was in 2008.
>
> 3. Didn't test this one, we only provide a single record at a time.
>
> 4. It chose COinS over unAPI at least at the time, and I found that to
> be a bit problematic.
>
> 5. Dunno.
>
> --Ere
>
> On 6.4.2010 16:48, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
>
>> Anyone know if there's any developer documentation for Zotero on it's
>> use of unAPI? Alternately, anyone know where I can find the answers to
>> these questions, or know the answers to these questions themselves?
>>
>> 1. What formats will Zotero use via unAPI. What mime content-types does
>> it use to recognize those formats (sometimes a format has several in
>> use, or no official content-type).
>>
>> 2. What is Zotero's order of preference when multiple formats via unAPI
>> are available?
>>
>> 3. Will Zotero get confused if different documents on the page have
>> different formats available? This can be described with unAPI, but it
>> seems atypical, so not sure if it will confuse Zotero.
>>
>> 4. If both unAPI and COinS are on a given page -- will Zotero use both
>> (resulting in possible double-import for citations exposed both ways).
>> Or only one? Or depends on how you set up the HTML?
>>
>> 5. Somewhere that now I can't find I saw a mention of a "Zotero RDF"
>> format that Zotero would consume via unAPI. Is there any documentation
>> of this format/vocabulary, how can I find out how to write it?
>>
>>
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