[odf-discuss] EndNote and ODF (bibliography help - slightly OT)

[marbux]

Daniel, if you wanted to work on that you might take a look at one of the
bibliographic tools that incorporates Bibutils, which is supposed to
import/export the Endnotes format amongst others. <
http://www.scripps.edu/%7Ecdputnam/software/bibutils/bibutils.html>.
Bibutils uses the Library of Congress Metadata Object Description Language
Schema as the intermediate language, so I suspect an XSLT might do the
trick. There are binaries available for Linux, Windows, and Macs. Licensed
under the GPL.

One such app I like is Wikindx, <http://wikindx.sourceforge.net/index2.html>.
Winkindx "is a free bibliographic and quotations/notes management and
article authoring system designed either for single use (on a variety of
operating sytems) or multi-user collaborative use across the internet." It's
a web app with a WYSIWYG editor. One of the reasons it is particularly
interesting to me is that another bibiliographic tool, UniWakka, is being
integrated into Winindx as a plug-in. <
http://uniwakka.sourceforge.net/UniWakka>. Uniwakka, amongst its other
attributes, supports automagic footnoting and tables of contents, features
missing from Wikindx. And perhaps important to this discussion, UniWakka
already exports to SXW, making it compatible with OpenOffice.org. Hopefully,
the merger of the two programs will capture the best of both applications.
Both the Winindx and UniWakka have online demos.

There is a list of other FOSS bibliographic tools, at least some of which
use Bibutils, at <http://bibliophile.sourceforge.net/projects.php>. The
Bibliophile project develops PHP-based bibliographic tools including  those
for converting between various bibiliographic formats. One such tool, which
as I recall is enabled in Wikindx, is an OOo plug-in allowing use of OOo
Writer as the editor for Wikindx via a WebDAV connection.

Hope this helps.

Best,

Marbux



On 10/17/06, Daniel Carrera <daniel.carrera at zmsl.com> wrote:
>
> Wikipedia says "EndNote can export citation libraries as plain text,
> RTF, HTML or XML".
>
> Do you have a copy of EndNote? Can you verify this claim? Can you check
> whether the XML support is both import and export? The Fellowship could
> try to make a two-way converter between ODF and that XML format.
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel.
>
> On Tue, 2006-17-10 at 15:14 +0100, Chris Puttick wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Needing some help to quell a potential uprising - some of our staff
> > with a strong academic background are requesting EndNote; however we
> > are committed to moving to OD Format and migrating to
> > OpenOffice/StarOffice in the next few months.
> >
> > Are there any replacements for EndNote that deal with OD Format? Or in
> > the pipeline (i.e. available in the next quarter-ish)? Are there any
> > translators from EndNote to something more open?
> >
> > Hope someone can help - if it's too OT, please contact me off-list.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Chris
> >
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