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 <h4>Contents</h4>
 <dl>
     <dd><a href="#mission">Vision</a></dd>
     <dd><a href="#Background">Background</a></dd>
     <dd><a href="#summary">Project Tasks</a></dd>
     <dd><a href="#More">More Details</a></dd>
     <dd><a href="#Developers">Developers Welcome</a></dd>
     <dd><a href="#participation">Participation</a></dd>
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 <h3><a id="Vision" href="#Vision">Vision</a></h3>

 <p>The OpenOffice Bibliographic project (OOoBib) will make it easier for people
 to store and manage their reference data, to format their documents, and to
 collaborate with other users.</p>

 <p>It will be simple to use for the casual user, but will meet all the
 requirements of the professional and academic writer.</p>

 <p>The features we will build include -</p>
 <ul>
   <li>A greatly improved Graphic User Interface for entering, editing and
     searching for bibliographic records.</li>
   <li>An improved bibliographic database (and internal data model) compatible
     with the emerging the industry standards, such as the "<a
     href="http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/">Metadata Object Description
     Schema</a>" (MODS), and the <a href="http://www.w3.org/RDF/">"Resource
     Description Framework"</a> (RDF), a framework for describing and
     interchanging metadata. These standards will support new collection types
     in different media, not just limited to books and journals but also
     supporting video, audio, maps, pictures etc.</li>
   <li><a href="XML-bibliography-proposal.pdf">Improved metadata support</a> in
     OpenOffice. Co-project leader Bruce D'Arcus has worked with <a
     href="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=office-metadata">OpenDocument
     - Metadata subcommittee</a> to improve metadata support on OpenOffice. The
     <a
     href="http://www.oasis-open.or g/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=office">OASIS
     OpenDocument Technical Committee</a> has approved these proposals, <a
     href="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/24327/ODF-Metadata-Proposal.pdf">metadata
     support [pdf],</a> for inclusion in ODF 1.2. What do we mean by enhanced
     metadata support? We mean that you can:
     <ul>
       <li>describe your document the way you want to describe it; no longer are
         you limited to a pre-selected list of properties</li>
       <li>describe different parts within your document: images, tables,
         paragraphs, and so forth</li>
       <li>tag pieces of document content as metadata; you can say this heading
         is a title, this fragment is the name of some person, and so forth</li>
       <li>create dynamic content fields based on this flexible metadata
       system</li>
     </ul>
   </li>
   <li>For the first time, the opportunity for the creation and distribution of
     opensource bibliographic style definitions that are not specific to a
     particular word-processor or bibliographic package. We propose to implement
     Bibliographic table and citation formatting using a process called <a
     href="citeproc/index.html">CiteProc</a>. See <a
     href="http://www.silmaril.ie/bibliox/biblioxdoc.html">BiblioX</a> for
     technical discussion of this approach. This methodology is used in <a
     href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Bibliographic_Software_and_Standards_Information#Zotero">Zotero</a>,
     the <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/">Firefox</a> bibliographic
     plugin.</li>
   <li>The ability to support all the common styles and conventions for
     citations and reference tables. This will include support for footnote /
     endnote citation styles and for differing first and subsequent citation
     formats. Also <a
     href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Writer_enhancements_for_OOBib">enhancements</a>
     to Openoffice Writer Footnote/ Endnote location selection and headings.</li>
   <li>The ability to change a document from one <a
     href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Bibliographic/Styles">style</a>
     to another with no or minimal further editing.</li>
   <li>Import and export filters for the common formats for bibliographic data,
     such as <a href="biblio-sw.html#LaTeX">BibTeX</a>, <a
     href="biblio-sw.html#Reference">RIS</a>, <a
     href="biblio-sw.html#Endnotes">EndNote</a>, <a
     href="http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/marc.html">MARC</a>.</li>
   <li>The ability to connect to, and to exchange data with bibliographic
     databases, using <a href="http://www.w3.org/RDF/">RDF</a> and <a
     href="biblio-sw.html">Z39.50 and SRU/W</a>.</li>
   <li>The ability to query internet reference sources (e.g. reference databases
     and library catalogues) directly and to add the responses received to the
     bibliographic database.</li>
   <li>A note taking facility, with the ability to link notes to references,
     notes to other notes, notes to keywords; and a notes search ability.</li>
 </ul>

 <p>When the project's objectives are achieved, it will be possible to convert a
 scientific, technical or academic paper from one bibliographic style to an
 other bibliographic style, such as one required by a journal, simply by
 selecting the required style convention and automaticity reformat the document
 to the new style. So far as we know, the only WYSIWYG word processor that
 provides these features is <a
 href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Bibliographic_Software_and_Standards_Information#Nota_Bene">Nota
 Bene</a>, it is a good example of the type of Bibliographic and word processing
 integration we would like to achieve with OpenOffice. </p>

 <h3>1st Stage, Bibliographic Facility Redevelopment</h3>

 <p>As our first step, we will implement the internal metadata and API
 enhancements to enable Bibliographic extensions to OpenOffice such as <a
 href="http://www.zotero.org">Zotero</a>, to better interact with OpenOffice.
 Currently when you insert citation into Writer with Zotero, only the text of
 the formatted citation is stored in the Writer Document, all the citation
 metadata resides in the database. If you wish to share your document with the
 full bibliographic data you would need to package it with a copy of the Zotero
 database. The aim is to store both formatted citation its metadata in the
 Writer document. Zotero would be able to retrieve the bibliographic data from
 the document and when necessary reformat the citations and references tables
 from the original metadata.</p>

 <p>To achieve this we will implement the most simple changes to the OOo Writer
 core code (the API basic code, and UNO mappings, but not yet the user interface
 code) necessary.</p>

 <p>When these basic functions are built into OOo Writer and are made assessable
 via UNO, we can then use rapid prototyping development methods to design and
 build prototype GUI interfaces and bibliographic formatting engines using the
 Extension Development Toolkit and Smart Tags. We will be able to use any of the
 programming languages which have OpenOffice bindings and are supported by the
 toolkit: C++, Java, Python and, of course, OpenOffice Basic. We believe that we
 will find more developers who can work in these languages than by insisting on
 C++ code from the start. Also it is much easier to build prototypes using Java,
 Python and OpenOffice Basic than in C++. </p>

 <p><strong><span><strong>See our development plans</strong> on the <a
 href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Bibliographic/Developer_Page"><strong><span
 style="color: #B2005A; background-color: #FFFFFF">Developers'
 Wiki</span></strong></a> and the list of <a href="#summary">project
 tasks</a></span></strong> below.</p>

 <p><span style="color:#ff0000">We urgently need volunteers to do these
 tasks</span>. For further details on development tasks go to the <a
 href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Bibliographic_Project's_Developer_Page">Developer
 Pages</a></p>

 <p><strong>When will this wonderful facility be available ?</strong>
 <strong><span style="color: #B2005A; background-color: #FFFFFF"><img alt="new"
 src="new.gif" /> We have planned to get meta data support for text objects in
 Writer in OOo version 3.1 (due April 2009). </span></strong><strong><span
 style="color: #B2005A; background-color: #FFFFFF">See <a
 href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Features#Planned_Features_for_2.x.2F3.0_Release">feature
 timeline</a>. Also see a <a
 href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/what's_up_in_the_writer">blog</a> on
 plans for Writer.</span></strong></p>

 <p><strong>But what can I do now ?</strong> In the meantime, if you are not
 happy with OOo's basic bibliographic support, you may like to use some of the
 third-party bibliographic applications that can work with OpenOffice. See the
 <a
 href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Bibliographic/Software_and_Standards_Information">bibliographic
 software page</a> for more details. We recommend you use <a
 href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Bibliographic/Software_and_Standards_Information#Zotero">Zotero</a>,
 which has a OOo plugin to assist with citation management. Other applications
 are: <a
 href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Bibliographic/Software_and_Standards_Information#JabRef">Jabref,</a>
 which can inset citations and bibliographies into an Writer document<img
 alt="new" src="new.gif" />, <a
 href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Bibliographic/Software_and_Standards_Information#B3">B3</a>
 which can write bibliographic records to a Openoffice Bibliographic text
 database or <a
 href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Bibliographic/Software_and_Standards_Information#Bibus">Bibus</a>
 which has good integration with OpenOffice.</p>

 <h3><a id="Background">Background</a></h3>

 <p>The terminology used by bibliographic applications can be confusing, so we
 have fixed upon the following three definitions:</p>
 <dl>
   <dt><strong>citation</strong><dd>a short description that points to a fuller
       description of an information source, or reference item elsewhere, either
       in a note or a reference list.</dd>
   </dt>
   <dt><strong>reference item</strong><dd>a fuller description of an information
       source; also called a bibliographic entry or item.</dd>
   </dt>
   <dt><strong>reference list</strong><dd>a collection of references; also
       called a bibliography.</dd>
   </dt>
 </dl>

 <p>Bibliographic applications help people manage their reference items and to
 create formatted citations and reference lists. Publishers, academic and other
 institutions generally specify detailed requirements of how their documents are
 to look, including the reference lists and the citations. Citation and
 reference list formatting is an often tedious and error-prone task,
 particularly if one has to later change styles. An ideal bibliographic
 application, then, allows a user to forget about these arcane details and focus
 on writing.</p>

 <p>The collection of bibliographic data (which includes author and publication
 details) for works cited in a document can also be a tedious and time consuming
 task and often involves the manual entry of these details into a database. An
 ideal bibliographic application would simplify or automate this process.</p>

 <p>Microsoft has only <a
 href="http://netapps.muohio.edu/blogs/darcusb/darcusb/archives/category/citations/word-2007/">recently</a>
 added bibliographic support to Word (version 2007) and the users of this
 product have had to make use of third-party, and usually commercial
 bibliographic applications, such as Endnotes and Reference Manager. Workers in
 many academic and scientific fields have used Latex, and its variants for
 technical word processing, and this software has its own bibliographic
 component called 'Bibtext'. OpenOffice does provide basic bibliographic
 functions, these include; a simple bibliographic database, a process to insert
 in-text or endnote citations into a document and a bibliographic table
 generator to produce a reference table of citations formatted as specified by
 the user. However, considerable improvement is needed for OpenOffice to
 approach or improve on the facilities provided by the commercial bibliographic
 products.</p>

 <h3><a id="More">More Details, links to -</a></h3>

 <p><strong>General information</strong></p>
 <dl>
   <dt><a href="deficiencies.html">A detailed list of OpenOffice bibliographic
   deficiencies.</a></dt>
   <dt><a
   href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Bibliographic_Software_and_Standards_Information">Bibliographic
   Software and Standards list</a></dt>
   <dt class="c4"><a
   href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Bibliographic/Styles">Bibliographic
   Styles Information</a> on a wiki - please contribute</dt>
   <dt><a
   href="http://opendocumentfellowship.org/Metadata/HomePage">OpenDocument
   Fellowship Metadata project</a></dt>
   <dt><a href="poetry.html">The Importance of Style Manuals. A poetic
   view</a></dt>
   <dt><a id="interview"
   href="http://www.openoffice.org/editorial/interview_dwilson.html">An
   interview with David Wilson about the Bibliographic Project</a></dt>
 </dl>

 <p><strong>Technical information</strong></p>
 <dl>
   <dt><a href="components.html">Overview of Bibliographic project
   components</a></dt>
   <dt class="c4"><a href="implementation.html">Technical Information about the
   Openoffice Bibliographic Implementation</a></dt>
   <dt><a href="mindmap/content-analysis.html">An analysis of Bibliographic
   components and their relationships</a></dt>
   <dt><a
   href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Bibliographic/Writer_enhancements_for_OOBib">Writer
   enhancements needed for OOoBib</a> on a wiki - please contribute</dt>
   <dt><a
   href="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/20492/UCR.odt">OpenDocument
   Metadata Use Cases and Requirements document</a></dt>
 </dl>

 <h3><a id="Developers">Developers Needed</a></h3>
 The bibliographic project urgently needs developers to help us implement our
 vision. The bibliographic project team will offer them every assistance. If
 needed they will also receive support from the Sun Microsystems' OpenOffice
 developers. See our <a
 href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Bibliographic/Developer_Page">Developers'
 Wiki</a> for more details.

 <h3><a id="participation"></a>Participation</h3>
 First, subscribe to the <a
 href="http://bibliographic.openoffice.org/servlets/ProjectMailingListList">bibliographic
 mailing lists</a> that interest you. You could join the <a
 href="mailto:users@bibliographic.openoffice.org">users@bibliographic.openoffice.org</a>
 or the more technical <a
 href="mailto:dev@bibliographic.openoffice.org">dev@bibliographic.openoffice.org</a>
 list. You can become a project member or 'observer' by registering on the <a
 href="http://bibliographic.openoffice.org/servlets/ProjectMemberList">members'
 page.</a> <a id="vote"></a>After you have registered up you might consider <a
 href="http://www.openoffice.org/scdocs/ddIssues_EnterModify#vote">voting</a>
 for the Bibliographic enhancement proposals, this may increase its development
 priority. Go to the <a
 href="http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/showvotes.cgi?voteon=4260">voting
 page</a> and allocate one or two votes to issue number 4260.

 <p>Then, scan the archive of the lists you have joined to catch up with what
 has been discussed so far. Also check our '<a
 href="http://bibliographic.openoffice.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentList">Documents
 and Files</a>' page.</p>

 <p>Then you might consider introducing yourself. You could let us know how you
 found out about the project, what your interests are, and anything else you
 care to share with us.</p>

 <p>The originator of this project is <a href="mailto:dnw@openoffice.org">David
 Wilson</a>. <a href="mailto:bdarcus@openoffice.org">Bruce D'Arcus</a> of the
 Geography Department of Miami University is the co-project leader. He has a <a
 href="http://netapps.muohio.edu/blogs/darcusb/darcusb/">blog</a>. We would be
 please to hear from you, also please feel free to tell the community about what
 interests you and what you would like to find in this project.</p>
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	<h4>Contents</h4>
	<dl>
	<dd><a href="#mission">Vision</a></dd>
	<dd><a href="#Background">Background</a></dd>
	<dd><a href="#summary">Project Tasks</a></dd>
	<dd><a href="#More">More Details</a></dd>
	<dd><a href="#Developers">Developers Welcome</a></dd>
	<dd><a href="#participation">Participation</a></dd>
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	<h3><a id="Vision" href="#Vision">Vision</a></h3>

	<p>The OpenOffice Bibliographic project (OOoBib) will make it easier for people
	to store and manage their reference data, to format their documents, and to
	collaborate with other users.</p>

	<p>It will be simple to use for the casual user, but will meet all the
	requirements of the professional and academic writer.</p>

	<p>The features we will build include -</p>
	<ul>
	<li>A greatly improved Graphic User Interface for entering, editing and
	searching for bibliographic records.</li>
	<li>An improved bibliographic database (and internal data model) compatible
	with the emerging the industry standards, such as the "<a
	href="http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/">Metadata Object Description
	Schema</a>" (MODS), and the <a href="http://www.w3.org/RDF/">"Resource
	Description Framework"</a> (RDF), a framework for describing and
	interchanging metadata. These standards will support new collection types
	in different media, not just limited to books and journals but also
	supporting video, audio, maps, pictures etc.</li>
	<li><a href="XML-bibliography-proposal.pdf">Improved metadata support</a> in
	OpenOffice. Co-project leader Bruce D'Arcus has worked with <a
	href="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=office-metadata">OpenDocument
	- Metadata subcommittee</a> to improve metadata support on OpenOffice. The
	<a
	href="http://www.oasis-open.or g/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=office">OASIS
	OpenDocument Technical Committee</a> has approved these proposals, <a
	href="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/24327/ODF-Metadata-Proposal.pdf">metadata
	support [pdf],</a> for inclusion in ODF 1.2. What do we mean by enhanced
	metadata support? We mean that you can:
	<ul>
	<li>describe your document the way you want to describe it; no longer are
	you limited to a pre-selected list of properties</li>
	<li>describe different parts within your document: images, tables,
	paragraphs, and so forth</li>
	<li>tag pieces of document content as metadata; you can say this heading
	is a title, this fragment is the name of some person, and so forth</li>
	<li>create dynamic content fields based on this flexible metadata
	system</li>
	</ul>
	</li>
	<li>For the first time, the opportunity for the creation and distribution of
	opensource bibliographic style definitions that are not specific to a
	particular word-processor or bibliographic package. We propose to implement
	Bibliographic table and citation formatting using a process called <a
	href="citeproc/index.html">CiteProc</a>. See <a
	href="http://www.silmaril.ie/bibliox/biblioxdoc.html">BiblioX</a> for
	technical discussion of this approach. This methodology is used in <a
	href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Bibliographic_Software_and_Standards_Information#Zotero">Zotero</a>,
	the <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/">Firefox</a> bibliographic
	plugin.</li>
	<li>The ability to support all the common styles and conventions for
	citations and reference tables. This will include support for footnote /
	endnote citation styles and for differing first and subsequent citation
	formats. Also <a
	href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Writer_enhancements_for_OOBib">enhancements</a>
	to Openoffice Writer Footnote/ Endnote location selection and headings.</li>
	<li>The ability to change a document from one <a
	href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Bibliographic/Styles">style</a>
	to another with no or minimal further editing.</li>
	<li>Import and export filters for the common formats for bibliographic data,
	such as <a href="biblio-sw.html#LaTeX">BibTeX</a>, <a
	href="biblio-sw.html#Reference">RIS</a>, <a
	href="biblio-sw.html#Endnotes">EndNote</a>, <a
	href="http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/marc.html">MARC</a>.</li>
	<li>The ability to connect to, and to exchange data with bibliographic
	databases, using <a href="http://www.w3.org/RDF/">RDF</a> and <a
	href="biblio-sw.html">Z39.50 and SRU/W</a>.</li>
	<li>The ability to query internet reference sources (e.g. reference databases
	and library catalogues) directly and to add the responses received to the
	bibliographic database.</li>
	<li>A note taking facility, with the ability to link notes to references,
	notes to other notes, notes to keywords; and a notes search ability.</li>
	</ul>

	<p>When the project's objectives are achieved, it will be possible to convert a
	scientific, technical or academic paper from one bibliographic style to an
	other bibliographic style, such as one required by a journal, simply by
	selecting the required style convention and automaticity reformat the document
	to the new style. So far as we know, the only WYSIWYG word processor that
	provides these features is <a
	href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Bibliographic_Software_and_Standards_Information#Nota_Bene">Nota
	Bene</a>, it is a good example of the type of Bibliographic and word processing
	integration we would like to achieve with OpenOffice. </p>

	<h3>1st Stage, Bibliographic Facility Redevelopment</h3>

	<p>As our first step, we will implement the internal metadata and API
	enhancements to enable Bibliographic extensions to OpenOffice such as <a
	href="http://www.zotero.org">Zotero</a>, to better interact with OpenOffice.
	Currently when you insert citation into Writer with Zotero, only the text of
	the formatted citation is stored in the Writer Document, all the citation
	metadata resides in the database. If you wish to share your document with the
	full bibliographic data you would need to package it with a copy of the Zotero
	database. The aim is to store both formatted citation its metadata in the
	Writer document. Zotero would be able to retrieve the bibliographic data from
	the document and when necessary reformat the citations and references tables
	from the original metadata.</p>

	<p>To achieve this we will implement the most simple changes to the OOo Writer
	core code (the API basic code, and UNO mappings, but not yet the user interface
	code) necessary.</p>

	<p>When these basic functions are built into OOo Writer and are made assessable
	via UNO, we can then use rapid prototyping development methods to design and
	build prototype GUI interfaces and bibliographic formatting engines using the
	Extension Development Toolkit and Smart Tags. We will be able to use any of the
	programming languages which have OpenOffice bindings and are supported by the
	toolkit: C++, Java, Python and, of course, OpenOffice Basic. We believe that we
	will find more developers who can work in these languages than by insisting on
	C++ code from the start. Also it is much easier to build prototypes using Java,
	Python and OpenOffice Basic than in C++. </p>

	<p><strong><span><strong>See our development plans</strong> on the <a
	href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Bibliographic/Developer_Page"><strong><span
	style="color: #B2005A; background-color: #FFFFFF">Developers'
	Wiki</span></strong></a> and the list of <a href="#summary">project
	tasks</a></span></strong> below.</p>

	<p><span style="color:#ff0000">We urgently need volunteers to do these
	tasks</span>. For further details on development tasks go to the <a
	href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Bibliographic_Project's_Developer_Page">Developer
	Pages</a></p>

	<p><strong>When will this wonderful facility be available ?</strong>
	<strong><span style="color: #B2005A; background-color: #FFFFFF"><img alt="new"
	src="new.gif" /> We have planned to get meta data support for text objects in
	Writer in OOo version 3.1 (due April 2009). </span></strong><strong><span
	style="color: #B2005A; background-color: #FFFFFF">See <a
	href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Features#Planned_Features_for_2.x.2F3.0_Release">feature
	timeline</a>. Also see a <a
	href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/what's_up_in_the_writer">blog</a> on
	plans for Writer.</span></strong></p>

	<p><strong>But what can I do now ?</strong> In the meantime, if you are not
	happy with OOo's basic bibliographic support, you may like to use some of the
	third-party bibliographic applications that can work with OpenOffice. See the
	<a
	href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Bibliographic/Software_and_Standards_Information">bibliographic
	software page</a> for more details. We recommend you use <a
	href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Bibliographic/Software_and_Standards_Information#Zotero">Zotero</a>,
	which has a OOo plugin to assist with citation management. Other applications
	are: <a
	href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Bibliographic/Software_and_Standards_Information#JabRef">Jabref,</a>
	which can inset citations and bibliographies into an Writer document<img
	alt="new" src="new.gif" />, <a
	href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Bibliographic/Software_and_Standards_Information#B3">B3</a>
	which can write bibliographic records to a Openoffice Bibliographic text
	database or <a
	href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Bibliographic/Software_and_Standards_Information#Bibus">Bibus</a>
	which has good integration with OpenOffice.</p>

	<h3><a id="Background">Background</a></h3>

	<p>The terminology used by bibliographic applications can be confusing, so we
	have fixed upon the following three definitions:</p>
	<dl>
	<dt><strong>citation</strong><dd>a short description that points to a fuller
	description of an information source, or reference item elsewhere, either
	in a note or a reference list.</dd>
	</dt>
	<dt><strong>reference item</strong><dd>a fuller description of an information
	source; also called a bibliographic entry or item.</dd>
	</dt>
	<dt><strong>reference list</strong><dd>a collection of references; also
	called a bibliography.</dd>
	</dt>
	</dl>

	<p>Bibliographic applications help people manage their reference items and to
	create formatted citations and reference lists. Publishers, academic and other
	institutions generally specify detailed requirements of how their documents are
	to look, including the reference lists and the citations. Citation and
	reference list formatting is an often tedious and error-prone task,
	particularly if one has to later change styles. An ideal bibliographic
	application, then, allows a user to forget about these arcane details and focus
	on writing.</p>

	<p>The collection of bibliographic data (which includes author and publication
	details) for works cited in a document can also be a tedious and time consuming
	task and often involves the manual entry of these details into a database. An
	ideal bibliographic application would simplify or automate this process.</p>

	<p>Microsoft has only <a
	href="http://netapps.muohio.edu/blogs/darcusb/darcusb/archives/category/citations/word-2007/">recently</a>
	added bibliographic support to Word (version 2007) and the users of this
	product have had to make use of third-party, and usually commercial
	bibliographic applications, such as Endnotes and Reference Manager. Workers in
	many academic and scientific fields have used Latex, and its variants for
	technical word processing, and this software has its own bibliographic
	component called 'Bibtext'. OpenOffice does provide basic bibliographic
	functions, these include; a simple bibliographic database, a process to insert
	in-text or endnote citations into a document and a bibliographic table
	generator to produce a reference table of citations formatted as specified by
	the user. However, considerable improvement is needed for OpenOffice to
	approach or improve on the facilities provided by the commercial bibliographic
	products.</p>

	<h3><a id="More">More Details, links to -</a></h3>

	<p><strong>General information</strong></p>
	<dl>
	<dt><a href="deficiencies.html">A detailed list of OpenOffice bibliographic
	deficiencies.</a></dt>
	<dt><a
	href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Bibliographic_Software_and_Standards_Information">Bibliographic
	Software and Standards list</a></dt>
	<dt class="c4"><a
	href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Bibliographic/Styles">Bibliographic
	Styles Information</a> on a wiki - please contribute</dt>
	<dt><a
	href="http://opendocumentfellowship.org/Metadata/HomePage">OpenDocument
	Fellowship Metadata project</a></dt>
	<dt><a href="poetry.html">The Importance of Style Manuals. A poetic
	view</a></dt>
	<dt><a id="interview"
	href="http://www.openoffice.org/editorial/interview_dwilson.html">An
	interview with David Wilson about the Bibliographic Project</a></dt>
	</dl>

	<p><strong>Technical information</strong></p>
	<dl>
	<dt><a href="components.html">Overview of Bibliographic project
	components</a></dt>
	<dt class="c4"><a href="implementation.html">Technical Information about the
	Openoffice Bibliographic Implementation</a></dt>
	<dt><a href="mindmap/content-analysis.html">An analysis of Bibliographic
	components and their relationships</a></dt>
	<dt><a
	href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Bibliographic/Writer_enhancements_for_OOBib">Writer
	enhancements needed for OOoBib</a> on a wiki - please contribute</dt>
	<dt><a
	href="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/20492/UCR.odt">OpenDocument
	Metadata Use Cases and Requirements document</a></dt>
	</dl>

	<h3><a id="Developers">Developers Needed</a></h3>
	The bibliographic project urgently needs developers to help us implement our
	vision. The bibliographic project team will offer them every assistance. If
	needed they will also receive support from the Sun Microsystems' OpenOffice
	developers. See our <a
	href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Bibliographic/Developer_Page">Developers'
	Wiki</a> for more details.

	<h3><a id="participation"></a>Participation</h3>
	First, subscribe to the <a
	href="http://bibliographic.openoffice.org/servlets/ProjectMailingListList">bibliographic
	mailing lists</a> that interest you. You could join the <a
	href="mailto:users@bibliographic.openoffice.org">users@bibliographic.openoffice.org</a>
	or the more technical <a
	href="mailto:dev@bibliographic.openoffice.org">dev@bibliographic.openoffice.org</a>
	list. You can become a project member or 'observer' by registering on the <a
	href="http://bibliographic.openoffice.org/servlets/ProjectMemberList">members'
	page.</a> <a id="vote"></a>After you have registered up you might consider <a
	href="http://www.openoffice.org/scdocs/ddIssues_EnterModify#vote">voting</a>
	for the Bibliographic enhancement proposals, this may increase its development
	priority. Go to the <a
	href="http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/showvotes.cgi?voteon=4260">voting
	page</a> and allocate one or two votes to issue number 4260.

	<p>Then, scan the archive of the lists you have joined to catch up with what
	has been discussed so far. Also check our '<a
	href="http://bibliographic.openoffice.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentList">Documents
	and Files</a>' page.</p>

	<p>Then you might consider introducing yourself. You could let us know how you
	found out about the project, what your interests are, and anything else you
	care to share with us.</p>

	<p>The originator of this project is <a href="mailto:dnw@openoffice.org">David
	Wilson</a>. <a href="mailto:bdarcus@openoffice.org">Bruce D'Arcus</a> of the
	Geography Department of Miami University is the co-project leader. He has a <a
	href="http://netapps.muohio.edu/blogs/darcusb/darcusb/">blog</a>. We would be
	please to hear from you, also please feel free to tell the community about what
	interests you and what you would like to find in this project.</p>
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