Bibliographic/OOoBib Functional Requirements/Keywords

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Keywords

One way to better sort articles is based on Keywords (see my post on keywords).

However, there is another way I will shortly describe here.

There are a number of categories a research paper can belong to:

• Basic Research
• Theoretical Research (especially in Math/Physics)
• Trials:
  • randomized controlled trial
  • Meta-analysis
  • other trial
• Review
• Guideline
• Correspondence
• Editorial
• Epidemiologic Study
• Case Report
• Images in clinical medicine (some Journals have such a feature/ could be a subgroup of Case Report)
• Questions/ Question-Answers

If there are other relevant categories, feel free to implement them as well.

This is especially useful when searching for all trials on a given matter (e.g. for writing a meta-analysis or writing a review or a guideline), or for a specific case report.

I do have some >2500 of articles saved on my computer and searching for the correct file is a nightmare. It may seem that 2500 articles is a huge number, however in infections diseases this is only a minimum to start with.

It is useful to have a field storing this information. Although custom fields exist, this is a feature that should be standard. It allows searching (and grouping) articles on a more powerful basis.

Submitted as issue number 66353 by discoleo at Openoffice.org.

Implementation ideas

How should the be implemented ? Most bib and document systems I have seem to think that adding a field for keywords is enough and let the user the invent their own categories. I have been involved in IT development and document management systems and have had enough lectures from librarians (ie professional indexers) to know that this just leads to a big unmanageable mess.

Also a good keyword system has a good set of aliases defined. One insurance company was providing different compensation for fractured limbs than for broken limbs. Because their compensation history search system did not have these aliases defined.

So --- Should build pre-defined keyword sets be available for the user to select i.e. Medical Research, Physical Sciences, Social Sciences etc ? David Wilson