On Apr 4, 2006, at 6:42 PM, David Wilson wrote:
Matt,
In the the developer Page
(
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/
Bibliographic_Project's_Developer_Page )
Stage 1, was intended as the 'minimal' requirement. And Stage 2 as the
"intermediate" .
Oh right; I forgot about that! Been one of those days ...
I actually like the document above; it's quite clear and focused. I
think that the requirements doc just confuses things and covers some of
the same ground. I almost want to say get rid of it, and assume the
above serves the same purpose.
I agree with Bruce the OOo database is not a minimal requirement. I
like the
idea that the OOo database would behave like any other Internet data
source.
If we built the DB interface to work via Zoom / Z39.50 interfaces
direct to
internet sources - (library catalogues, etc) then the Internal OOoBib
database becomes more complex to build because we would need to build a
Z39.50 server for it as well, or other programming to make look as if
it was
working behind a such a server.
I'm not so sure. If the Index Data guys (or Rob or Matthew) are here,
they might want to jump in. I think so long as ZOOM is exposed as a UNO
API, there's no need for a server. What the API does is provide a
consistent way to access data from different types of sources, and
places.
Also CiteProc is working right now using data stored in an eXist xml
database.
The quickest way to build something that works would be to build a
xforms
based browser to work with eXist and a function to inset the selected
citation into Writer.
There's nothing particularly magic about what citeproc does. There are
two steps:
1) collection citations and download associated bib records from a
server
2) format those records
Citeproc does this in one step -- and can also use SRU servers,
including RefBase -- as a data source, but it probably makes more sense
to keep them as separate steps.
Alf Eaton write a tiny little Perl script called CiteProxy that does
something like this, collecting metadata from different source and
presenting it to CiteProc for formatting.
Bruce
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