Academic Workflow and the Online World
James Howison has put up a diagram that models academic workflow.
I think it’s missing a couple things that may complicate this a bit. For me, a big one is annotation of bibliographic records, which blurs the boundary between managing and writing papers.
Also, one thing that a lot of people are thinking about is online bibligraphic metadata access. Imagine, perhaps, highlighting a partial reference in a PDF file or web browser, and then running a web service on it to download the metadata record to your bibliographic database.
An intriguing idea that has come up on the OOoBib dev list is to have a unified API for both local and remote record query. ZOOM is looking like a good candidate, maybe in conjunction with the CQL query language.
