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Samstag August 27, 2005

The OpenOffice.org Bibliographic Project
Over the next few weeks I want to introduce various OpenOffice.org projects. In order to keep this simple and easy for both me and the project leads, I will just ask three relatively simple questions and post the answers here in my blog. Today I want to talk about the Bibliographic project led by David Wilson and Bruce D'Arcus. Here are the questions:

1.) What is the goal or focus of your project?

"The goal of the bibliographic project is to provide bibliographic support for Openoffice equivalent in function to commercial packages such as Endnotes, Reference Manager etc. But unlike the commercial bibliographic products we will utilise industry standards such as MODS, XML, XSLT and SRU/W. Both the bibliographic engine and style definitions will be open-source and usable by other open-source applications."

2.) What documents or web pages should people read first when they join (or want to join) your project in order to make themselves familiar with the project and contribution opportunities?

* The project Welcome page
* The Developers page
* Bruce's Blog

3.) What are the top three areas where volunteers could help, and what skills would be needed for that?

"GUI application design. XML/XSLT coding skills for the bibliographic formating engine (we have a working example but need some skilled people to perfect it). Programming skills to work with the Openoffice API."
( Aug 27 2005, 02:44:33 PM CEST ) Permalink Kommentare [1]

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OpenOffice.org distributed at state conference of lawyers
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( Aug 27 2005, 02:00:04 PM CEST ) Permalink

SpreadOpenDocument.org
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( Aug 27 2005, 01:20:33 AM CEST ) Permalink Kommentare [1]