![]() ![]() Which in Roam turns into this: Figure 1: Paper Metadata in Roam after Export from Zoteroįirst, I can look at the pages for individual authors and check out all the papers they have written or contributed to. Zotero link:: (zotero://select/items/1_B6KWR3W2) The translator I've written produces output like this: ]Īuthor:: ] ] ] ] Zotero translators are Javascript files that look into your Zotero database, take the information stored there and format it in a way that's useful for you. If you know how to code it's relatively easy to write one yourself, but if you can't I'll share mine with you that should cover all the basics quite nicely. The trick for this is to use a custom Zotero translator as they call them. But how do you get that information from Zotero into Roam? Getting Metadata out of Zotero With that, getting author, publication date and more is trivial. ![]() To get information into Zotero, all you need is its browser connector. And by leveraging Zotero's import and export capabilities, you have a much easier time getting that information into Roam than without Zotero. By getting metadata out of Zotero into Roam, you can use it to see new connections and relationships between the papers and books you read that you couldn't get out of using Zotero alone. Roam is a fantastic tool for thought, and provides you with many ways in which you can explore your reading. If you prefer a video version of this guide, you can also watch this video on Youtube: Why use Roam together with Zotero? In this guide I won't go into how to install Zotero or set it up – what I'll show you is how to get data out of Zotero and into Roam in a way that makes it useful in Roam and gives you easy access to attached files. If you want to learn more about why Zotero is an awesome reference manager, I've written about that here. That makes it a perfect fit for a workflow where you collect your sources, both files and bibliographic info, in Zotero, copy that info to Roam and link back to Zotero to have easy access to the files. What makes Zotero stand out is that it's open source and very flexible in how you get information into and out of it. Endnote, Mendeley, Papers, Bibdesk.there are many reference managers out there. Zotero is a reference manager – it's the digital equivalent of a filing cabinet full of index cards with bibliographic information, and there's many alternatives. Which is fine, because there's another tool that plays very nicely with Roam if you set it up right. It's no secret that I'm a believer in Roam Research to do my personal knowledge management, storing and connecting quotes I extract from my reading and writing papers and articles.īut while Roam is an incredible tool for thought, it's far from a useful reference management system on its own. And academia is not alone in this – researchers gathering information for the finance and insurance industries, for example, also take great care to ensure that information is accurate and traceable. In academia, no-one takes you seriously if you do not provide documentation on where you got a finding, piece of information or dataset from. Or the thousands of bloggers, Youtubers or Reddit commentators that do the same. Think about how many newspaper articles you have read that mention a "new study by scientists at X university found that" without any link to the actual paper they are talking about. Most of the writing you encounter does not do that. What makes academic writing different from most other writing? It's that you provide sources for facts and the claims you make. ![]()
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