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

[Lars D. Noodén]

On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Alfredo Beaumont wrote:
> I might be missing something here, since I don't use neither endnote nor
> refmanager, but from what I have heard to my colleagues at university they
> don't seem to have anything that cannot be done with any free reference
> manager based on BibTeX.

It's possible, but only in specific contexts and even then only for 
references which can be expressed in 7-bit ASCII.  The record structure 
possible with BibTeX is a bit too primitive to use in citing, though I 
can not provide examples now.

A lot of the metadata questions were hashed out over some years with input 
from many librarians, computer scientists and other information 
specialists. The result is the Dublin Core standard which, although 
simple, could be used in OpenDocument:

  http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/interop-focus/activities/z3950/int_profile/bath/draft/Appendix_D__XML_DTD.htm

I'm not sure whether it would be most practical to have the metadata, 
espcially that of citations, in a separate file or to have it embedded in 
the body of the document.  Probably the former is easier, with a pointer 
to it from the body and some formatting rules each time it is to occur.

Skimming the committee draft 3 for OpenDocument 1.1, nothing jumps out 
that indicates work on this kind of usage of metadata.

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/20686/OpenDocument-v1.1-cd3.odt

-Lars
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