Dear Colleagues, 

Please join us 21-25 October 2024 for a collaborative cleaning and updating of ICHO’s Zotero library. The event is scheduled for the entire week so that you can participate whenever you have time available and from wherever you are located.  

In 2022 members and friends of ICHO gathered digitally for the first Zotero Fest to edit and organize the shared library (in progress since 2020), making it easier to use and more complete. Two years later, the library has kept growing in different directions that indicate a need for more comprehensive tags reflecting even a broader range of actors, disciplines, and regions. If you’d like to participate, either join us for the launch meeting on Monday 21st (see below) or write an email to plima@us.es

With that in mind, we have worked on adding some new categories for tags (as explained in the attached “Tags and Tasks” document). We have opted for an extensive (but by no means comprehensive) list, since each entry can be linked to multiple tags, and these are really very useful to find relevant items. Please read the short instructions within the that document to change and add new tags. 

In that same document you will find a list of tasks, you’ll see that we have distributed most of them amongst ourselves (DEEPMEDers) and left to you the general task of adding new stuff. But please contact us in case you’d like to contribute with something else!

By contrast, we have decided not to touch the folders. They are currently organized under various criteria, reflecting different moments in the history of this library. The result can be rather strange–“ICHO bibliography 2021” alongside with “fisheries”, for instance. But since folders are not very useful, we have opted for creating a “Added in 2024” folder where we can put everything without further distinctions (that’s what the tags are for!).  

A teams meeting was held on Oct. 21st in which Pablo Lima provided a brief account of how we have organized the tags and the tasks. You can find a recording of the meeting here.

If you would like to know more about Zotero and the ICHO library, you can access the introduction to Zotero that Beatriz Martínez Rius offered for the 2022 Zotero Fest in this link.

We have to make sure that we are not overlapping in our efforts, we will distribute tasks among participants through Google docs. The tasks include tagging entries, reviewing existing references, and flagging those where information is missing. 

** The person who contributes the most during the week will receive a small prize! ** 

• Introduction to Zotero Oct. 21st, 11:00am EDT to 12:00pm EDT 
• Roundup and Small Prize Ceremony Oct. 25th, 11:00am EDT to 12:00pm EDT 

We hope to see you there! 

The DEEPMED Project-ICHO Zotero Committee (Lino Camprubí, Alberto Celís, Aymen Chrigui, Ada Ferraresi, Pablo Lima, and María Villarín) (on behalf of ICHO)