On 16/10/10 20:48, Simos Xenitellis wrote: > On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 7:18 PM, j.martin.pedersen > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> LibreOffice is an exciting development! >> >> As a Free Software user and advocate who spends time in academia this is >> a crucial aspect of getting anyone to use LO: >> >>> As Writer developer I would be really interested in improving that... >>> though I have no idea of the requirements behing bibliographic works. >>> Would you be able to get some people helping to describe what needs to >>> be done? If you can find some other developers interested in hacking >>> that part, I'm ready to help them getting started! >> >> Whenever you suggest OOo or now LO to academics and students, they ask: >> "What about my Endnotes?" >> >> Until there is an integrated GUI that somewhat looks and feels like - >> and of course is 100% compatible with - Endnotes, social science and >> humanities academics will never migrate. They are locked in. With a >> great bibliographic component in LO, they could be unlocked. >> >> Looking forward to seeing what will happen, >> > > Just to add here that a new program for handling bibliographies is Mendeley, > http://www.mendeley.com/ > which has packages for both 32-bit and 64-bit of Linux. > It can communicate with OOo, though I did not try this.
There is a wealth of options, somehow. http://www.zotero.org/ is very interesting. Moving to the browser level makes a lot of sense for researchers - that's where you need it most of the time (auto-adding PDFs, URIs etc.) and if connected to ISBN databases it can make life a lot easier. But Bibus: http://bibus-biblio.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page - last update in 2009. and: http://bibliographic.openoffice.org/ - Last updated in 2008. "List address [email protected] List description A moderated mailing list for announce messages Total messages 2" This does not inspire confidence :) My questions are: What happened to the OOo Bibliography project? And what are the many competing visions for a bibliographical system that exist? Finally, how can the Free Software world create a platform that integrates all the best of existing systems in a cross-platform GUI that is compatible with the dominant systems (Endnote etc.) and which integrates with OOo, LO, and even that M$ Office thing and of course Firefox or Zotero? There should be a basis for a project with social and computing science departments. The time is right for institutions to explore cuts in their licensing costs. Always look on the bright side... m -- E-mail to [email protected] for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
