discoleo has submitted an interesting enhancement request. I created a wiki
page http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Bib-Keywords to discuss such
issues.
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discoleo wrote ---
One way to better sort articles is based on Keywords. However, there is
another way I will shortly describe here.
There are a number of categories a research paper can belong to:
* Basic Research
* Theoretical Research (especially in Math/Physics)
*Trials:
**randomized controlled trial
**Meta-analysis
**other trial
*Review
*Guideline
*Correspondence
*Editorial
*Epidemiologic Study
*Case Report
*Images in clinical medicine (some Journals have such a feature/ could be a
subgroup of Case Report)
*Questions/ Question-Answers
If there are other relevant categories, feel free to implement them as well.
This is especially useful when searching for all trials on a given matter
(e.g. for writing a meta-analysis or writing a review or a guideline), or for
a specific case report.
I do have some >2500 of articles saved on my computer and searching for the
correct file is a nightmare. It may seem that 2500 articles is a huge number,
however in infections diseases this is only a minimum to start with.
It is useful to have a field storing this information. Although custom fields
exist, this is a feature that should be standard. It allows searching (and
grouping) articles on a more powerful basis.
Submitted as issue number 66353 by discoleo at Openoffice.org.
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Implementation comment by dnw
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How should this be implemented ? Most bib and document systems I have seem to
think that adding a field for keywords is enough and let the user the invent
their own categories. I have been involved in IT development and document
management systems and have had enough lectures from librarians (ie
professional indexers) to know that this just leads to a big unmanageable
mess, which librarians are often called in to try to fix. Once you have a
categorical mess it is generally hopeless.
Also a good keyword system has a good set of aliases defined. One insurance
company was providing different compensation for fractured limbs than for
broken limbs, because their compensation history search system did not have
these aliases defined. The cases and the compensation history diverged as
each of the staff used their preferred term.
So --- Should we build pre-defined document category sets that a user could
select one for each document collection. i.e. Medical Research, Physical
Sciences, Social Sciences etc ?
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David N. Wilson
Co-Project Lead for the Bibliographic
OpenOffice Project
http://bibliographic.openoffice.org
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