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

[Lars D. Noodén]

You can download a demo of EndNote for OS X or several legacy platforms 
here:
 	http://endnote.com/endemo.asp

The insides of the db seem not to have changed from the old days and is 
basically a flatfile.  Regarding the format, IIRC I used one of the XML 
export functions in 2002 to allow a faculty member to maintain a 
bibliography offline which was periodically uploaded to a MySQL database 
where people could browse/search it.

I've been following Endnote and Procite on and off since the appeared on 
the market.  They're very, very, very simple single table databases that 
do three main things:

1) import from library catalog searches
2) integrate with and manage word processing footnotes and endnotes
3) auto-format citations according to various publishing styles

Such functionality could be added without technical difficulty to 
Kofffice, OOo, and so on.  Look to IndexData's ZOOM and Yaz tools for the 
technical side of importing library catalog searches.

OpenDocument, however, in its current version is missing essential 
metadata capabilities.  In the long run the metadata capabilities in 
OpenDocument need to be brought up to speed.  I see that Bruce D'Arcus has 
joined the thread and I defer to him in this area in which "he da man".

-Lars

Lars Noodén
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On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Daniel Carrera 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
>>
>