On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 08:56:47AM +1000, David Wilson wrote:
> On Friday 31 March 2006 9:41 am, Matt Price wrote:
>
> Snip ....
> > Alternatively, would it make most sense to design the bibliographic
> > database next -- since there are so few C coders here, but many people
> > with some database experience?
>
> Accepting Matt's good idea I have created a Bibliographic Database wiki page
> dealing with database design issues and the next development steps.
>
> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Bibliographic_Database
>
Thanks for setting this up, David. I found it quite helpful.
Looking over the tasks you laid out ("what needs to be done?") it
seems that very little can be accomplished on this front until the
database design is finalized. Is the design of this database actually
something under the control of the bibliographic project? Or would it
have to be approved by a central committee or even OASIS first? And
if the latter is the case, are there steps that might be taken to move
that process along?
On the organization of the bibliographic database:
- I see there are no keywords. Is it assumed that keywords will
become a kind of note?
- unlike in refbase or refdb, there seems to be no way to associate a
set of references with a user (though notes are associated with
users). Is this a design decision?
- is there any way at all to harmonize this database design effort
with one or more of the many FLOSS bibliographic projects? For
instance, as I understand it Refbase is considering mivng to a
non-flat DB, and I think even RefDB is looking at changing its DB
structure (again!). It would be so great to have input and support
from projects of that nature...
Overall, it seemsto me that a complex and flexible structure of this
kind necessitates some further elaboration of record types, so that
an OOo bibliographic db, when crated, could never be empty; instead,
there would have to be a well-populated set of
reference/relation/collection/event types from the get go. SO I
suppose that's also osmething to think about...
Matt
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