I would like to see consideration of interoperability with the Microsoft Office Open XML formats (if a proposed feature will compromise interop I'd prefer it left out). It would also be worth looking at the MS Word to ODF converter project which should be retro-fittable into older versions of Word.
The default word processer is still MS Word, and compromising interoperability is not an option for the projects I'm working on. So if some of the fields under discussion here can be converted in and out of generic data fields in Microsoft's formats then that would be great (the new citation format in Word 2007 is not a option because it is not compatible with earlier versions of Word, or available on OS X). So I guess my question here is "is there an existing generic data field for which MS Word interop is already sorted out that could be extended for citation and bibliography support?" My reading of this is that storing source data in the ODF document is optional. If so that's good. On 7/28/06, Bruce D'Arcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
FYI, the ODF metadata SC met today to discuss how we'll move forward with the requirements document. We're going to start by discussing in detail two of what we think are the most difficult and representative use cases we need to solve. The first of these will be bibliographies and citations. I am therefore going to post my tentative thoughts here in case anyone has any comments. ODF Requirements ================ - bibliographic source metadata must (optionally) be stored as a single file apart from the content file, in the file wrapper, for easy extraction, processing, etc. - bibliographic resources must be identified with uris, which are used to link citation with source - data file must be registered through the manifest as a bibliographic data source - metadata must be extensible so that it can evolve to meet changing community needs independent of ODF, and different potential database applications can transport their own specific extension data without need for any specific support from ODF - data model needs to account for the relational character of bibliographic metadata, such that authors, publishers, and so forth can be treated as full resources, with their own set of properties - must be able to type resource descriptions (book, article, etc.) - given that source records are likely to be created by third-party applications, the format should be clear and easy to read and write with standard XML tools Dependencies ============ The already approved citation field scheduled for ODF 1.2 might be slightly changed to fit better with this more general approach. This has no effect on backward compatibility, of course. Application Requirements ======================== - optional namespaced content must be preserved - at minimum, must support display of formatted citation field content; more advanced support would include editing the citation field. Processing of formatted citation fields and bibliographies and editing of source data would be a perfect third-party opportunity. Bruce --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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