Session Title: Creating Flows for Zotero

Importance of the Topic

This session will provide information on expanding the analytical capabilities provided by the Zotero extension. Being able to create and run custom analytical algorithms on their Zotero collections is important for researchers to be able to address meaningful research questions regarding their data.

Focus of the Topic

Upon completion of this session, participants will:

• Be able to adapt an existing flow (or create a new flow) that will perform some analysis on the items in a collection
• Understand how the configuration mechanism for enabling flows in the SEASR Analytics extension works

Format of the Session

• Presentation
• Demonstration
• Learning Exercise
• Discussion Questions
• Summary and Review

Presentation

• Slides can be found at http://dev-tools.seasr.org/confluence/display/Outreach/Presentations

Demonstration

• We will go through an example of what a Zotero-enabled flow looks like and what's special about it
• We will show how to modify an existing Zotero-enabled flow and how to "deploy" it so that it can be leveraged within Zotero

Learning Exercises

• Create a new flow (or adapt an existing flow) using the Meandre Workbench that performs some simple analysis and "deploy" it for access by Zotero
  • We can use the flow we constructed in an earlier session as a base
  • Execute this flow
  • Change the configuration of SEASR plugin so that it knows how to access this flow

Discussion Questions

• What improvements would you like to see in the SEASR-Zotero integration, both in terms of functionality and user interaction experience?

Summary and Review