Zitat von Bruce D'Arcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Feb 24, 2005, at 5:15 AM, Van-Couvering,EJ (pgr) wrote: > > BibDB (p14) - "a major issues is whether a document can contain > > insertions from more than one BibDB" Yes, please!!!! I have a range > > of databases more or less categorised by subject [...] > I'm going to throw out a strong contrary opinion, in the interest of > debate. > If you have more than one database for different subjects, then this is > because your application is not a very good database application. If > searching is easy and efficient, and storage robust, why should you > need more than one database? [...] >And if you allow more than one database, how are you and your >formatting processor going to know where the bibliographic records are?
Two things on this: A) It will definitly happen that people already have more than one database. Also, it can happen that, say, I get another database from a colleague - maybe to another topic. However this is not at all a problem, because ... B) ... it is, as fas as I can judge this, neither a problem to work with multiple databases. (If I know a document is in database X and tell this to OOo, why should OOo not be able to cope with this?) Nor is it a problem to work with only one BibDB and to cope with the above problem by simply "importing" other databases into the "one and only" BibDB. As a conclusion, from my point of view this IS a mayor design issue, but it is more a question of "what we want" than "what is possible". Personally, I am slighly in favour of allowing multiple databases, because I prefer to keep references to specific topics physically separate (in separate directories). But I could surely live with both... Matthias Basler [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------- This mail was sent through http://webmail.uni-jena.de --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
