[Owncloud] Possible to extend OwnCloud to sync Zotero databases?

[Advrk Aplmrkt]

Hello,

Zotero can use any arbitrary WebDAV share as a sync for its database.
However, there is no online access to the database, i.e. you have to
sync it onto your computer and use the desktop client to view your
data.

If you sync to the official Zotero server, there is a web interface to
your database.

Felix: Is web/online access what you were referring to?

On 15 April 2012 14:05, Alessandro Cosentino <cosenal at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Felix,
> I also like this idea. Let me understand it better, though.
> Zotero can already use a webdav directory instead of the local one.
> What you want to do further is having Zotero to use ownCloud database
> as opposed to its own sqlite db. Do I understand it correctly?
> The idea would be creating an ownCloud app that does similar things to
> zotero and would use ownCloud db.
> In such case, Zotero's API will only help to synchronize the new app
> with the actual zotero.
> I am wondering what advantages we would have with a new app, rather
> than using zotero with owncloud storate via webdav. Do you have in
> mind some use cases on which we need this app to integrate with other
> owncloud apps?
>
> Alessandro
>
> On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Advrk Aplmrkt <avkaplmkt at gmail.com> wrote:
>> As another satisfied user of Zotero, I think this is an excellent
>> idea. Please let me know how I, as a non-programmer, can help with
>> this effort!
>>
>> On 15 April 2012 04:27, Felix Lenders <fl at felixlenders.de> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I use the popular Zotero [1] as a reference manager. It has a sqlite
>>> database to store metadata and has a data directory to store files.
>>> Currently it is possible to synchronize a Zotero database via their website
>>> and the data via either their website or webdav.
>>>
>>> For me it would make owncloud more or less complete if it could fully handle
>>> my literature with it. What is missing is database synchronization. Since
>>> Zotero is opensource (GPL) and as it seems has a good API documentation [2],
>>> I think it should be doable in principle.
>>>
>>> What do you think about it?
>>>
>>> Felix
>>>
>>> 1: zotero.org, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zotero
>>> 2: http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/server_api