Hi,
speaking of multiple databases: What I have been missing in bibliography systems is the possibility to synchronize bib DBs. Scenario: There are shared bibDBs for our institute and for our division, but I also have a personal DB on my laptop (and on my PC at home). If I copy entries to my laptop it would be cool if the copied references would be synchronized automatically so that I get all (public) updates automatically (as soon as I have the network connection) -- and vice versa.
What do you think?
(And this implies the need for supporting multiple databases.)
Cheers, Peter
Matthias Basler wrote:
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...
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