Re: [tdf-discuss] A Map of Bibliographic systems? was: LibO roadmap?

On 16/10/10 20:48, Simos Xenitellis wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 7:18 PM, j.martin.pedersen
> <m.pedersen@lancaster.ac.uk> 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.

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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

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