On Sep 1, 2006, at 8:44 AM, Jakob Lechner wrote:
We would like to implement "Smart Tags"-like functionality in Openoffice Writer.
I'd like to offer a suggestion. I'm the co-project lead for the OpenOffice bibliographic project, a member of the OpenDocument TC, and heavily-involved in the current metadata subcommittee work there. I feel like all of this work -- as well as related features in Open XML -- may have overlap with the "smart tags" use cases, and so would be grateful if you consider possible synergies here.
As a simple example, we at the bibliographic project desperately need the new citation field implemented, and without that support, not only can we not do anything useful with bibliographic features in OOo, but interoperability with Word 2007 -- which is gaining citation support similar to what we want in OOo -- will be quite difficult. If I understand right from reading the latest Open XML spec, Microsoft is implementing citation support using something like smart tags (I think they call it "structured tags"?). It's really just a field with some pointers to bibliographic source records, and the rendered content.
But more broadly, at the metadata sc we are really interested in creative solutions to link content with custom metadata, which I think is the primary use case for "smart tags."
In other words, perhaps rather than just recreate where MS was five years ago, we can really innovate here in ways that are built on top of ODF standards?
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