Re: Bibliography support (was: Google Summer of Code 2007)

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> On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 09:39 +0100, Petr Tomasek wrote:
>> I think abiword should not repeat the error of OO to
>> create it's own bibliography manager _as_part_ of abiword
>> itself, but rather develop general framework for
>> any sort of indexing engines to be plugged into abiword.
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> +1
>
> My reference manager[1] only supports lyx/latex because as far as I know
> they're the only ones which have interfaces for this stuff. If a
> similar interface existed in abiword I'd support it as fast as you could
> write it.
>
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>> I think something similar should be possible as plugins
>> for abiword, allowing 3rd parties to plug their bibliography
>> managers etc. into abiword.
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> -1
>
> Having a write an abiword-specific plugin would be suboptimal, if you
> mean that in the same way that EndNote plugs into MS Word. This leaves
> the referencing software doing all its own formatting, and having
> separate code for every word processor it supports. The ideal thing
> from my point of view would be if abiword/openoffice/koffice all
> supported a common XML format. Standards for bibliographic metadata
> exist: see Dublin Core or MODS.
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> http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/
> http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/
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> I think that in order to see widespread 3rd-party support, an abiword
> bibliography framework needs to take document metadata and format the
> bibliography itself.
>

Is anyone interesting in mentoring a SoC student on this? I can help on
the plugin and abiword side of things but I don't have much of a clue on
how best to the bibliography interface.

Cheers

Martin

>
> Regards,
> John
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> 1. http://icculus.org/referencer/
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Received on Fri Feb 23 11:42:54 2007