Another thing is that there are 14 specific ways that documents can
relate to each other. For example, a document may be a stand-alone
document, part of a issue, or volume, a multi-work set, etc. I have the
article around here somewhere that lists the relationships if we are
going to have to consider that type of thing, but my concern is the
level of complexity we are discussing. When my team was designing the
DIADEM (Design of Interfaces and Databases for Electronic Media)
document-system prototype at OCLC, we iterated through four database
structures until finally just having a core schema for documents and
then associating attributes with that object-oriented structure (this
was back in the late 1980's). None of the standard ways of organizing
information supported what we needed -- we had started from a
bibliographic perspective and worked our way out from there.
Martha
Subject:
A new approach to bibliographic style content analysis.
From:
David Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date:
Sat, 28 May 2005 11:57:32 +1000
To:
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Following on from the ideas recently discussed about a new approach to the
OOoBib user interface. I have started a new analysis of the decision
structure and attributes of a bibliographic system. However I did not start
from library catalogue data as is usually done but from the Style Guide of
the type the user might be attempting to implement / use. This provide some
interesting insights. The mind-map I discuss below starts to suggest some
user interface navigation options.
For example, Matthias Basler suggested the idea that in dealing with Persons
we could select a person from our list and then assign their relationship to
the referenced work. I thought that their would be several relationships like
Author, editor etc. but I have come up with 34 ! (see the list on the web
page) and there are sure to more. So this approach is much better than having
34+ data entry boxes for each type of person !
I have put my first efforts at
http://bibliographic.openoffice.org/mindmap/content-analysis.html
Any comments would be welcome.
regards
David
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