In an effort to simplify my life, I’m thinking about going to Zotero exclusively and dropping delicious. To do that, I want to see whether there is a way to take an XML file out of my delicious account and import it in some reasonably unmessy way into my Zotero library. Wish me luck.
Beating the Bounds
Library stuff I'm thinking about
Also on my to-do list for this week. Let’s see who gets there first!
Here’s where I am so far. Delicious exports bookmarks as HTML and the tags seem to have been lost in the translation. Then I remembered that I’ve been using Backupify for various services. Backupify gave me my delicious account in XML. Then I found Bibutils, free software that helps you convert files in various ways so they can be used in bibliographic utilities (such as citation managment tools like Zotero). I installed the Bibutils software but can’t figure out how to get it to do anything (it works at the command line). I can see that software will convert XML into RIS, a format that RIS can ingest, but I’m not sure how to make that happen in the software. It also looks like I may first massage the XML into some modified XML. I have a feeling I’m going to have to learn about XSLT first just to get the XML file into shape for the software. So, a seemingly simple task has morphed into a bunch of DIY projects.
This is starting to sound like a learning module for the DIY project!
Did you ever work out a way to export your delicious bookmarks to Zotero? I’m working on the same issue right now.
Crystal, I am afraid that I didn’t.
I’ve also been working on this and came up with a (very basic) solution, which I put up at http://stevenccherry.appspot.com. Hopefully it will work for you, or if it doesn’t I would appreciate feedback.