On 04/10/06, Bruce D'Arcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm talking about an external database providing metadata to OOo, that is then typically stored in-document.
Yeah, that would likely be "rightly" in the domain of external apps, kinda like BibTeX is. It would be interesting to see interoperation, though.
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 I read somewhere that David Wilson is a historian, which was the base of my comment. Interesting to know, though. Personally, I am studying for a B.A. of history at the University of Iceland, which explains my interest in the project. :)
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.
Fair enough. There's a good handful of techno-illiterates in the courses I'm taking, I've noticed. I found it a bit ironic that a highly-praised package like BibTeX has *way* insufficient ability to cope with the demands of history, to be honest, but obviously the entire development of TeX is aimed towards mathematics and engineering. I do hope the shift you're describing is occurring. There's immense potential in digital technologies for everyone, and much of academia has substantially under-used it. :( -- Schwäche zeigen heißt verlieren; härte heißt regieren. - "Glas und Tränen", Megaherz --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
