ajlyon/zandy — Issue #51: Alternate workflows for attachments
Author: ajlyon
Created: 2011-10-24 04:39:18+00:00
State: open

The BibUp iPhone app from Fribourg demonstrates that innovative thinking makes it possible to get around the current lack of attachment uploading in the Zotero API.

We could support uploading attachments to an intermediate server, and have a small Zotero plugin handle retrieving them and attaching them to the proper item. We could just mark the item with a special tag that provided the info needed for the plugin to go and retrieve the attachment and attach it using desktop Zotero.

I don't know what we would do for the intermediate server, since I can't very well do that on my budget hosting at gimranov.com, and the server costs could rack up if the feature were to take off. For now, food for thought.

This could be used for attaching any local items that happen to be on the Android device (PDFs, whatever), but also for more innovative things, like photos. The latter case leads us towards a new workflow for archival and library ad hoc digitization...