Bibliographic List members,
To let you know what has been happening -
Bruce D'Arcus has been lobbying senior Sun OpenOffice managers to get some
definite statement of support for our project and some idea of the scope of
work that they may be willing to undertake. We have asked that at a minimum
we need -
Sun to improve the infrastructure for bibliographic metadata and citations.
This involves changes at both the level of OpenDocument, which we started
last year with a citation proposal that was approved by the OD TC, but which
are as yet incomplete, and at the level of OOo infrastructure. (Bruce' message
today shows that his is progressing)
Sun to enhance OOo to make it easier for developers (including Sun!) to
innovate. This is the custom content access idea. ( At the moment, if you add
any custom data into a OOo save file, and open and close the file with an OOo
application your custom data will be removed. There needs to be a mechanism
by which developers and users can add and save custom data.)
The OOo bibliographic functions exposed via a plug-in API to make it really
easy for third-parties to plug-in in a consistent way. We have proposed, with
advice from industry experts (two of whom are working with us), that the
easiest and most forward-looking way to do this is to expose the ZOOM API via
UNO.
Once these are in place it will be much easier for volunteer developers to
build and attach the bibliographic applications that we need.
The answer we have received was that they now have to -
1) work out a rough technical design for the involved areas,
2) get the resources from the involved teams to support (not implement) the
effort and
3) have people with the will and ability to do grass-roots work.
My impression is that they support, in principle, our approach
and goals. We have to wait and see what resources can be scheduled for this
work and when.
Regards
David Wilson
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David N. Wilson
Co-Project Lead for the Bibliographic
OpenOffice Project
http://bibliographic.openoffice.org
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