Organizing Bibliographic Metadata
When you start to think of what is necessary in bibliographic software for a serious scholar, and what is possible given recent software and metadata developments, one can start to envision a very interesting – and potentially very complex – tool (or set of tools).
A variety of people are starting to think along the lines of this poster, who says:
Requirements - to allow to:
- describe a document
- categorise a document
- associate a file and/or URL (full text) with a document
- add interesting quotes (text excerpts) to the document information
- add relations (references) to/from other documents
- view and navigate relations
Ideally that would be a graphical tool that allowes to navigate the document relations in a graph form, view the graph in various views and explore its clustering.
This reflects one important aspect of managing citations. But another is being able to put this metadata to use; to integrate it with document creation. I thus like Peter Schulte-Stracke’s (of the Pybliographer project) suggestion that creating an interface for editors such as OpenOffice and KWord also ought to make it possible to do something similar for emails clients.
