Zotero Plugin Ecosystem and Infrastructure
Consolidate Zotero Research Management Platform plugin system
This project aims to strengthen the infrastructure for Zotero plugin development. Zotero is a popular open-source research management tool with a large ecosystem of community plugins. However, plugin developers currently rely on fragmented, under-documented, or discontinued development tools, making plugin maintenance unnecessarily costly and starting a new plugin project unnecessarily complex. This project will consolidate and modernize the main open-source libraries already used by a large part of the Zotero plugin ecosystem, and extend features on top. The outcome will be a better organized, documented, and sustainable framework for out-of-the-box Zotero plugin development, with smoother TypeScript support, easier development, more reliable debugging and testing, and clearer onboarding for new contributors. Together, these tools will form the next-generation open infrastructure for long-term, maintainable Zotero plugin projects.
- The project's own website: https://zotero-plugin.dev/
Run by University of Stuttgart
This project was funded through the NGI0 Commons Fund, a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet programme, under the aegis of DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement No 101135429. Additional funding is made available by the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI).
