List members. Laurent Godard, the Project Lead for the OOo Extensions project mentioned that you can use user-fields to allow you to define document metadata. The OOo document properties panel, File->Properties->Tab='User Defined' only has four user defined fields and some people have found this to be completely inadequate.
Laurent is a developer of an interesting OOo addon application that demonstrates this - "Ooo2Dbk is a converter of OpenOffice.org documents to DocBook articles or books. This export allows to use the popular DocBook format as a pivot to archive the content and transform it to other formats such as HTML or PDF, by using well defined filters. The DocBook reference is available at http://docbook.org/tdg/en/html/ Ooo2Dbk has been developed by InDesko for the CNCC and the French Ministry of Equipment. It uses user defined fields to store the metadata, has a nice GUI panel to access the data, and has a DocBook XML V4.4 converter." The metadata fields have been developed for French Government use but could clearly be adapted for academic use. Note the documentation has not been updated for OOo version 2 but it seems to work. To install the add-on package you can use the tools->Package Manager to add the file Addon_Indesko_OOo2Dbk.zip in the ooo2dbk-1.5.0-1.tgz file mentioned below. It installs the code and the Indesko item on the menu to get the GUI panel. The Openoffice added-on code and the documentation is available in - http://www.indesko.com/telechargements/ooo2dbk/downloadFile/attachedFile/ooo2dbk-1.5.0-1.tgz -- ------------------- David N. Wilson Co-Project Lead for the Bibliographic OpenOffice Project http://bibliographic.openoffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
