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

Lars D. Noodén lars at umich.edu
Wed Oct 18 03:46:27 EDT 2006


What are the changes in how OpenDocument 1.1 handles metadata as opposed 
to OpenDocument 1.0 ?  And are those enough to enable what you describe?

-Lars

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On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
[snip]
> So let's imagine this for ODF. Maybe there's a common API that allows
> OOo and/or KWord to hook up to any compliant bibliographic app. When
> user adds a citation, the bibliographic app passes the raw
> bibliographic metadata to the editor, it gets embedded in the file
> package, and can be used to (re)generate the formatting. Because the
> metadata is embedded according to ODF metadata conventions,  the file
> is fully portable, not only between editors, but also bibliographic
> databases.
[snip]
> The ODF metadata work that will help make this possible will have other 
> benefits for extension development.


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