On 10/3/06, Herbert Snorrason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think there's scope to seriously scale back the project and leave it > to third-party apps like Zotero (to go public later this week) to > provide the database functionality. But to do that, we still need > standard citation fields and metadata storage. You're talking about a persistent database outside of a particular document, then? Because, clearly, if you're intending to include the bibliographic data only once in a document, you'll be constructing a per-document database anyway.
I'm talking about an external database providing metadata to OOo, that is then typically stored in-document.
Zotero *does* look very interesting, though. Funnily enough, this project and Zotero are the only computer-based biblio things I've seen that involves historians. What's up with that?
It is indeed interesting. I'm actually a geographer, though from the social science/humanities end of the discipline, so have a lot in common with historians. I think what's common among us as users is that we have really demanding citation needs, often having to cite a wide range of source documents, much of it effectively primary data. The reason why I don't think more software has so far been designed by people like us is that many people is this area are not very tech-savvy (a lot of people do bibliographies by hand still). I do think that's changing, though, and these projects are evidence of that. Bruce --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
