[Bug 121958] Replace the Bibliography Database by a dialog to manually input new sources and to fetch from online sources via identifiers for citations/bibliography/references

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=121958

--- Comment #17 from V Stuart Foote <vsfoote at libreoffice.org> ---
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #16)
> ... Zotero integration is blocked by Java that we cannot use
> in the default configuration. Plus, it is a 3rd party tool which should be
> kept as such.

No, only the current Zotero plug-in extension (.oxt--build bundled with the
desktop application release build) requires Java. 

Otherwise IIUC actual Zotero's API is JavaScript .js based and local content
held in an SQLite instance, with the API providing access to WWW personal and
global data stores.

So for our needs the Zotero API could be wrapped in Python and complied for
packaging with LibreOffice, but needing to reimplement the UI and data
formatting features the plug-in already provides.

The greater issue would be handling the local SQLite instance the Zotero API
requires. And replicating Zotero table space to HQSQL table space *would* still
require Java.

To avoid dependence on Java (which is really just a packaging concern) we
probably would need to either replicate the Zotero table space into
FirebirdSQL, or somewhat more reasonable to go ahead and implement the SQLite
instance needed to host Zotero for our Bibliography DB needs.

IIRC back in the day, a number of the devs had advocated for having SQLite
available, not to replace HQSQL (the Firebird remains best non-Java SQL
implementation) but for internal use for configuration and plug-in support.

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