Zotero is a reference management tool which is developed by the Center for History and New Media at the George Mason University, USA. It is implemented as Addon for Mozilla Firefox and as a Standalone version which can be additionally used with Google Chrome, Apple Safari. Zotero stores all data locally in SQLite Databases. It also offers beside importing the meta-data of publications from various sources, a full-text indexing of the stored documents. All stored information can be synced with the dataserver provided by the Zotero project as cloud service to keep the information updated among different machines. Moreover, this is even possible by shared collections with other collaborators. An own storage of sensitive pdfs is possible on a WebDAV location. However, this does not permit the sharing with other collaborators. Thus, for a full-featured implementation without sharing information outside a closed circle, an own installation of the zotero server is required. Currently the Zotero project itself does not actively support the installation of the server component.
The initial version focused on automating the installation steps provided by sualk in his github repository for the zotero data server. This development has stalled. New versions aim s on installing the zotero dataserver using the vanilla sources provided by the upstream project.

No tagged release was published until now. The development snapshot can be obtained from Git repository.

Currently the software is only developed and suppurted for Debian Wheezy. It might also work with modifications on other Linux distributions, but this cannot be guaranteed. The required dependencies on Debian Wheezy are:

• MySQL 5.5.44
• PHP
• Apache 2.2.222.22
• Zend Framework 1.11.13
• cURL 7.26.0
• OpenJDK-7-JRE 7u79
• runit 2.1.1