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11 FEBRUARY 2012
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Zotero: an easy-to-use digital research tool

"Zotero is an easy-to-use yet powerful research tool that helps you gather, organize, and analyze sources (citations, full texts, web pages, images, and other objects), and lets you share the results of your research in a variety of ways. An extension to the popular open-source web browser Firefox, Zotero includes the best parts of older reference manager software (like EndNote) - the ability to store author, title, and publication fields and to export that information as formatted references - and the best parts of modern software and web applications (like iTunes and del.icio.us), such as the ability to interact, tag, and search in advanced ways. Zotero integrates tightly with online resources; it can sense when users are viewing a book, article, or other object on the web, and - on many major research and library sites - find and automatically save the full reference information for the item in the correct fields. Since it lives in the web browser, it can effortlessly transmit information to, and receive information from, other web services and applications; since it runs on one's personal computer, it can also communicate with software running there (such as Microsoft Word). And it can be used offline as well (e.g., on a plane, in an archive without WiFi)."

(Dan Cohen & Sean Takats)

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aeroplane • aggregating relevant content • Alfred P. Sloan Foundation • Andrew W. Mellon Foundation • bibliography software • browser extension • Center for History and New Media • citation • Dan Cohen • Del.icio.us • digital libraries • digital research tool • easy-to-use • EndNote • Firefox • full text • gather together • George Mason University • information in context • information on the web • iTunes • knowledge integration • knowledge repository • library sites • Microsoft Word • Mozilla Firefox • offline • online archives • online resources • open source • organise • receive information • reference information • reference manager • research tool • Sean Takats • search • shared collection • tagging • tool • United States Institute of Museum and Library Services • web application • web browser • Web Services • WiFi • Zotero

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Simon Perkins
31 MAY 2010
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Representational State Transfer (REST)

"The Representational State Transfer (REST) style is an abstraction of the architectural elements within a distributed hypermedia system. REST ignores the details of component implementation and protocol syntax in order to focus on the roles of components, the constraints upon their interaction with other components, and their interpretation of significant data elements. It encompasses the fundamental constraints upon components, connectors, and data that define the basis of the Web architecture, and thus the essence of its behavior as a network-based application."

(Roy Fielding, 2000)

[1] Cody Fauser, James MacAulay, Edward Ocampo-Gooding, and John Guenin 'High level overview of a RESTful Rails web service'.

[2] Fielding, Roy Thomas. Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures. Doctoral dissertation, University of California, Irvine, 2000.

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2000 • abstraction • API • data • distributed hypermedia system • integrate • network • network-based application • programming • Representational State Transfer • REST • REST API • Roy Fielding • software architecture • uniform interface • University of California • web architecture • Web Services

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Simon Perkins
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