On Apr 28, 2008, at 1:28 PM, James Howison wrote: > > 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
I think it would be nice just to have the ability to create a controlled vocabulary for one's self, that is, to have a term list independent of the keywords that are entered into the keyword fields. Maybe a CSV file could be loaded in. Note that you can do something somewhat like controlling your own vocabulary by setting the groups pane to show keywords; Then you see things like "Philosophy" and "philosophy," and you can consolidate. That won't work, of course, if there are terms that are not linguistically alike, but you want to use as synonyms. The issue of nested groups has come up many times on this list (though not recently, I am pretty sure) and Christiaan and Adam have always said it was too difficult; I would imagine that that remains their opinion for this case too. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ================================= Adam M. Goldstein PhD MSLIS Assistant Professor of Philosophy Iona College -- email 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] email 2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] web http://www.iona.edu/faculty/agoldstein/ tel (914) 637-2717 post Iona College Department of Philosophy 715 North Avenue New Rochelle, NY 10801 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
