How to use the new zoterordfxml feature of Biber?

Question

I use zotero to manage my bibliography and Biblatex + biber to use it.

For now, I export a .bib file and use it with Emacs+AUCTex. I can cite in a very easy way by using Ctrl[ (AUCTex cite feature with Regex) and writing the name of the author I want to cited. I can choose, then, the article I want to cite. I automatized the .bib export at each change with autozotbib plugin.

But, it is not perfect : I have some problems with Biblatex fields (zotero seems to export using the Bibtex fields and not biblatex ones). And, I am not refused a way to interconnect more closely zotero and Biblatex (than the simple .bib export).

I read in biber project page :

Experimental support for RIS, Endnote XML and Zotero RDF/XML

When surfing on the web, you can found mention of zoterordrdfxml feature of biber (there is a man page for ubuntu and a google groups thread). The biber manual says only :

Other datasource types : For datasources other than BTEX, (e.g. ris, endnotexml and zoterordfxml), the source entrytypes and fields are usually very differently modelled and named. For example, here is how to drop dc:subject fields from various entrytypes in Zotero XML RDF format data sources:

<maps datatype="zoterordfxml" map_overwrite="1">
<map>
<per_type>journalArticle</per_type>
<per_type>book</per_type>
<per_type>bookSection</per_type>
<map_step map_field_set="dc:subject" map_null="1"/>
</map>
</maps>

These informations are not sufficient (for me) to use the zoterordfxml (experimental) feature.

Does someone set successfully Biber to use a zotero database without exporting a .bib file ? (by the help of zoterordfxml feature or not)

Answer 1

While not a direct answer to your question, note that Zotero now (since about a month) has a dedicated BibLaTex export translator in addition to regular bibtex export that you can use for better results with biblatex. Alternatively, you can also look at the - very similar - biblatex translator here: https://github.com/andersjohansson/zotero-biblatex-translator , which provides some additional functionality based on hacks that aren't officially supported in Zotero. You can configure autozotbib to work with either of these translators - I doubt that anything biber can do with Zotero's RDF export is better than what these translators provide.