On 28 Apr 2008, at 10:27 PM, Adam M. Goldstein wrote: > 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. >
Definitely. The simple answer is this: as long as BibDesk does not use a proprietary format instead of bibtex for saving, any of this is just wishful thinking. Christiaan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
