On 13/01/11 16:57, Trevor Jenkins wrote: > On Mon, 10 Jan 2011, Peter von Kaehne <ref...@gmx.net> wrote: > >> Modules really should have bibtex or something similar in their conf >> file. This would improve the use of our library for academic purposes. > > Some design questions for you. (Always better to fix bug in design than in > the debug or production phase. Standard software engineering procedures; > the more time spent in design the less time in the debugger.) > > a) How does the end user get the bibliographic citation out of the .conf > file for a module?
Was explained in previous email. But a) there is a method in libsword for getting conf entries (so frontends can access this) and b) the conf files are there, public and accessibly in your home directory, so anything/anyone can get it from there without using a frontend. > b) How does an end user refomat a specific citation from obtained from > Sword converted to another format? Absolutely any and every open source bibliographic software can handle BibTeX - at least as import format, if not as native format. Most can also export into other formats. > c) Why not delegate the bibliographic information to the module provider? > Chris Little mentioned in an email that it would be possible to generate > the bibliographic information on the Crosswire server. Why not leave it > there and the very few people who really need it can grab it from the > server. Why? To make it more complicated to access? 100-200 bytes added material ? Why should this not in the conf file? > d) Why does any mention of Sword (or Crosswire) need to be made for those > modules that have not been through some textual amendation process? In > citing a book, paper, article, or other resource discovered online one > doesn't say "found with Google", or "in a search result from Bing." The > bibliographic information a scholar would require is author(s)/editor(s), > year of publication , edition, place(s) of publication. In the main those > are going to be the original publisher. Crosswire only needs be credited > if copy-editing changes have been made to the text; I contend that > claiming for marking up a module is unecessary. Massive difference to Google, which links to content rather than providing content Apart from that Greg has answered this. I think his answer stands. Peter > _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
