On Apr 26, 2008, at 5:36 PM, Andrew Cerniglia wrote: > First, thanks for a wonderful program. > > I did a hour long presentation in my graduate course this past week > demonstrating my use of BibDesk, Skim, LaTeX, VoodooPad and TextMate > ($80 total). The people (5-10 doctoral students and two professors) > were blown away by the quality and power, especially the integration > of BibDesk and Skim.
Screencast/Video? That would be cool. > I have a suggestion, for what it's worth. I am frustrated by the > quality and consistency of the keywords, admittedly author supplied, > that are included with the download of reference information from > online databases. Certainly, it is possible to delete these and supply > my own. What I would find more useful would be the ability to tag > files using a controlled vocabulary. That it, a user created, > hierarchical list (including synonyms) of keywords. > > I use the same sort of thing to tag photos. For examples, see > http://www.controlledvocabulary.com/ > . There are obviously pros and cons of controlled vocabulary. The major one, from the perspective of an open source project, is that maintaining them is administration heavy. I don't think it's appropriate for BibDesk, or any application, to take on that task. Now if there were a source of a known controlled vocabulary, managed by someone else and available online in a machine parse-able format, then one could conceivably design a field in BibDesk that would only accept keywords in that vocabulary (and perhaps make cross-referencing suggestions, depending on the semantic machinery provided by the keyword controlling authority). Was that more what you had in mind? --J ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-develop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-develop
