Session Title: SEASR Analytics for Zotero

Importance of the Topic

Leveraging the extensive capabilities of the Meandre engine is not limited to the Workbench and the Meandre Server Interface. Zotero is a very popular Firefox extension among humanities researchers, allowing them to collect, manage, and cite their research sources. This session will show how to leverage the capabilities of the Meandre engine from Zotero, allowing researchers to bring the power of analytics to their Zotero collections.

Focus of the Topic

Upon completion of this session, participants will:

Be able to install and use the SEASR Analytics extension for Zotero
Understand what happens behind the scene - what information is pulled from Zotero and transmitted to a Meandre flow for analysis

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
Documentation page can be found at http://seasr.org/documentation/zotero/

Demonstration

We will be demonstrating how to install and use the SEASR Analytics extension for Zotero

Learning Exercises

Have participants run some of the Zotero-enabled flows on their own collections

Discussion Questions

What kinds of data assets would you be creating in Zotero?
What other analysis would you like to use against this data?

Zotero Introduction