[dev-biblio] Bibliographic Project announces its development plans

[David Wilson]

The OOo Bibliographic Project (OOoBib) is pleased to announce the release of 
its development plans. The plans are available at 
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/User_talk:Dnw . We have placed our 
plans on the wiki site as we hope developers will contribute by adding 
information to assist others and to add detail to the plans.

Our current objective is to design and build OOoBib version 0.1, which will 
contain the most basic functions for an usable bibliographic facility with: 

1.bibliographic formatting support for: 
   * complex features required of commonly used citation styles like APA and  
      Chicago 
   * automatically switching between potentially radically different citation 
     styles (ie. footnote to in-text) 
2.a data model that can support a broader range of reference types 
3.integration with remote databases 

We are, in fact ready to go with the first task in that plan which is to 
modify the Writer document-read and document-save modules to support the new 
OpenDocument enhanced citation format, and to implement the citation and 
bibliography changes to the OOo Writer save file (in Open Document format) 
accepted by the OpenDocument Technical Committee. 

OOoBib offers many interesting opportunities for developers to become involved 
with a range of cutting edge technologies, covering: Internet, metadata, 
databases, and XML XSLT and OpenOffice. 

Please consider if you would like to help us in the development of this 
exiting project. We especially need the assistance of a C++ programmer to 
implement the first essential changes to Writer. When these basic changes are 
in place we can proceed with application prototyping in OOo Basic, Java or 
Python. When we have designed, built and tested the prototypes and they have 
been accepted by the OOo community we intend to rebuild them in C++ so that 
they can become part of the core OpenOffice application. 


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David N. Wilson
Co-Project Lead for the Bibliographic 
OpenOffice Project
http://bibliographic.openoffice.org

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[dev-biblio] citation example coding

[Bruce D'Arcus]

OK, CPH, per request Florian Reuter has posted something on his blog 
about how to code this stuff:




Seems like he's planning followup posts.

If anything unclear, perhaps you could post a comment?

I want to emphasize that it's critical we find some C++ coders to work 
on this now.  We've finally got someone at Sun willing to spend some 
time helping us, so we need to take advantage of it.


Bruce

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