Please don;t forget interaction with *TeX family of projects in this. Paul
On 17 October 2010 10:07, j.martin.pedersen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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 > > -- 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
