Use Zotero and Jekyll-scholar to automate "interesting reads" section (NO AI)

[TinasheMTapera]

Due to the previous embarrassing snafu that AI was hallucinating URLs of articles we asked it to format, I want to go the pure code route. The plan is as follows:

1. Throughout the month, collect interesting media, be it official peer reviewed publications, blog posts, or videos, in zotero with a dedicated bibtex bibliography. This zotero collection could even be shared with the community as a group.
2. In zotero, use a special tag (such as the read status plugin https://github.com/Dominic-DallOsto/zotero-reading-list ) to categorise what has already been published and what is waiting for the next edition
3. When the time to publish comes, export the full bibliography bibtex file to the repo/update the bibtex file in the repo (e.g. in _data)
4. In the website repo, use the jekyll-scholar plugin syntax https://github.com/inukshuk/jekyll-scholar to query the bibliography for zotero entries that have NOT been read by the read status plugin

# Interesting Reads

{% bibliography --query @*[read_status=Unread] %}

4. Customise the CSL so that entries in the above bibliography come out in the way that we have been shaping them for a newsletter, eg:

- **G. O’Brien**, _"How Scientists Use Large Language Models to Program,"_ *CHI ’25: Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems*, pp. 1–16, 2025. [Read the article.](https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3713668)