Zotero

We're considering Zotero as literature management system for the group.

Points to know:

• Local usage of the software is free.
• Registering at Zotero provides a cloud service for syncing the database and its attachments, up to 300 MiB it's free. For {2 GiB, 6 Gib, ∞} it's {$20, $60, $120} per year.
• The database itself is small, but the attachments (typically the actual papers) will quickly grow beyond 300 MiB.
• For the users own library, syncing can be split: The database can be synced to Zotero, the attachments can be synced to any WebDAV server (like our NextCloud).
• Registered users can create a group and invite others, this yields a group library (upon next sync).
• For the group library, syncing cannot be split, it has to use the Zotero server.
• The scheme for generating the unique item keys cannot be changed.
• Zotero allows for linking to attachments inside a designated folder. For this, only relative paths within this folder are stored in the database.
• We could share the "linking folder" (or rather a sub-folder therein) via NextCloud. But it should be pre-structured well, because once a contained file is referenced in the database, it shouldn't be renamed nor moved.