Hi Tony,
for something like this I think it would be the best to create an OOo
extension and offer that one to interested users via
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/
This has also the main advantage that you could develop your "oolabnotes
or something" relativ independendly.
For technical background on extensions and how to create them and for
general integration and OpenOffice.org API questions have a look at the
following web and wiki pages of the extension and api openoffice.org
subprojects
http://extensions.openoffice.org/
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Extensions
http://api.openoffice.org
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/DevGuide/OpenOffice.org_Developers_Guide
And you should probably subscribe to the mailing lists of those two
projects for getting specific questions answered.
Kind regards,
Bernd Eilers
Tony Walker wrote:
I have grown quite tired of paper lab notebooks. They are hard to share,
expensive, not easily searched, awkward when incorporating electronic
data (acquired data, digital photos, etc.), etc. There are commercial
applications which replace paper notebooks, but they are expensive and,
frankly, I love open source. As a result, I have started writing what
will become an open source electronic lab notebook. As it stands right
now, my application uses oowriter as the editor, odt as the document
format, subversion to track changes (and enforce academic integrity),
and gnupg. As my application becomes more tightly integrated with
OpenOffice, I am increasingly thinking it should actually be part of the
OO suite: oolabnotes or something like that ;-).
I have a lot of thoughts and questions, but I think the most important
initial questions are:
1) Is there ANY interest from the OO community for integrating lab
notebook functionality into OO?
2) If there is interest, how do I get started with the non-technical
aspects? That is, who needs to approve, etc.
3) How would I start hammering out the overarching technical details?
For example, how does this application integrate with the others?
Of course, I will appreciate any questions, comments, or suggestions.
-
Tony Walker
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