Difference between revisions of "Bibliographic/OOoBib Functional Requirements"

Revision as of 22:10, 29 March 2006

Original Author: Manish Agrawal, 2003

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Description:

The Bibliographic module in OpenOffice is designed to provide authors with all the required functionality to manage and use bibliographies and references in writing research papers. In addition, the Bibliographic module will allow users to share bibliographies with co-authors using other popular bibliographic software such as Endnote.

Offering input:

The best place to provide input is the mailing lists of the OpenOffice Bibliographic module. You may join these lists by going to http://bibliographic.openoffice.org. It is desirable that the bibliographic module focuses on functionality that is really required by authors on a day-to-day basis. In the opensource spirit, please feel free to express your needs and every effort will be made to incorporate the functionality if it really meets day-to-day needs.

Purpose and scope of the Bibliographic module

The Bibliographic module will do the following:

• Serve as the personal Bibliographic library and library for 'serious' writers
• Serve as the repository of encyclopedic information for 'young' writers
• Allow 1-click switching between bibliographic styles
• Export bibliographic references in all popular formats such as Bibtex, RIS (Endnote)
• Import bibliographic references from all popular formats such as Bibtex and RIS
• Allow easy sharing of bibliographic styles
• Allow easy creation of bibliographic styles
• Provide intuitive and friendly GUIs for all these functions
• Many functions of the biblio module resemble those that would be desirable in a mini photo-album software. These features include storing images, assigning captions to them, searching them through captions etc. Some time should therefore be spent on identifying the extent to which the design of the biblio module should be capable of morphing into a photo-album module for OpenOffice.