Title: Add COiNS metadata to make reference managers recognize references
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# Add COiNS metadata to make reference managers recognize references

 *  [drmbongo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drmbongo/)
 * (@drmbongo)
 * [1 year, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-coins-metadata-to-make-reference-managers-recognize-references/)
 * Hello all,
 * I am setting up a system to share a large (1500+ articles) Zotero library with
   the users of Ecopath with Ecosim, a scientific tool ([https://ecopath.org](https://ecopath.org)).
   To me, ZotPress is an ideal system for showing references, but the reference 
   list shown in the website is not easily consumed by reference managers that now
   require an intermediate step of downloading and manually importing BibTex files.
   This is unnecessarily cumbersome. This intermediate step can be eliminated by
   following strategies deployed by Google Scholar and others, who adorn references
   with metadata that allows reference managers such as Zotero, Mendeley, and EndNote
   to recognize and directly import references. IMHO, ZotPress needs this functionality
   as well.
 * There are two mechanisms that could be added to ZotPress with just a few lines
   of code (by someone who knows what they’re doing), text below extracted from 
   a ChatGPT conversation:
   – **Use COinS Metadata for Each Reference.** COinS (ContextObjects
   in Spans) is a standard way to embed metadata about a publication into HTML. 
   See [here](https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/19243/creating-coins-for-websites).
 * – **Add Schema.org Metadata with JSON-LD**. If COinS feels dated, you can include
   metadata in the form of JSON-LD (linked data) using the Citation schema from 
   Schema.org. This can sit in the head of your page or inline in script tags. See
   [here](https://schema.org/ScholarlyArticle).
 * What do you think?
 * I can give this is shot, but I am not sure where the active ZotPress core branch
   is to add this to – and I am not well-versed in PhP. Alternatively, I am willing
   to provide funding for someone willing to build this, happy to discuss directly.
   This functionality is important to EwE, and I hope to the wider ZotPress user
   base as well.
 * Best wishes,
   JeroenEwE core developer / Ecopath International Initiative
    -  This topic was modified 1 year, 3 months ago by [drmbongo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drmbongo/).
      Reason: Pressed ENTER too early :-/
    -  This topic was modified 1 year, 3 months ago by [drmbongo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drmbongo/).
    -  This topic was modified 1 year, 3 months ago by [drmbongo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drmbongo/).

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 *  [Jim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jwmc/)
 * (@jwmc)
 * [1 year, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-coins-metadata-to-make-reference-managers-recognize-references/#post-18323586)
 * Zotpress already offers the ability to provide RIS links via the CITE attribute.
   That’s a pretty standard format for exchanging references.

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 * [ease of use](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/ease-of-use/)
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