Team
- intern: Yassin Akbib
- mentor(s): Christian Frisson
Title of the internship
Development of a plugin for a bibliography management tool to facilitate exploring trends
Objective
At Metalab and other departments for innovation at the SAT, as in many Research and Development groups, we regularly perform technological watch to keep up to date with recent advances in technologies, in our case enabling the creation of immersive multimedia experiences. We use Zotero to share collections of bibliographical items.
A few Zotero plugins have been created to perform trend exploration tasks on collections using information visualization and text mining, but they are either deprecated (Paper Machines, zotero-voyant-export for Voyant Tools), or in progress.
The goal of this internship is to develop a plugin for Zotero to facilitate exploring trends, for now in collections of PDF files. Restoring deprecated plugins or contributing to in-progress plugins or starting from scratch are viable options.
Tasks
- Review existing Zotero plugins
- Understand key techniques from information visualization and text mining to support tasks such as exploring trends
- Develop a plugin (restore deprecated plugins or contribute to in-progress plugins or start from scratch)
- (Bonus) Present our joint contributions at an international conference
Context and software
- Zotero Plugin Development: JavaScript, CSS, Mozilla technologies (XPCOM, XULRunner, XUL, etc.), Git
- Related Zotero plugins: Paper Machines, zotero-voyant-export for Voyant Tools, and more...