Map Your Zotero Library
Thanks to a Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) plugin, you can now “bibliomap” your Zotero library. Fun! Er . . . wait . . . useful!
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After a cursory go (about thirty minutes) at it, I’ve been able to:
- Cluster nodes (e.g., authors, titles, and publication dates) in my specific data sets (e.g., modernism, digital humanities, and sound technologies) around certain “pathways,” keywords, or categories (e.g., “remediation”, “old media”, “novel”, “chapter 1″).
- Add images, notes, and URLs.
- Access the URL for a given node by clicking on its bubble on the map.
- Create presentations that include nodes and excerpts from the map itself.
You can save the maps, too. And all of this information is drawn from the metadata in your Zotero library.
My library has 540 entries, and the plugin’s worked just fine thus far. Only things to know (just in case you do not already): Firefox and Java must be involved.
