Citations, Metadata, OOo, and ODF
David Wilson and I—co-project leads at the OpenOffice Bibliographic Project—had an interesting IRC meeting this morning with a group of managers and engineeers affiliated with the OOo project, to figure out how we move our project forward. David has posted the transcript here.
What was particularly encouraging is that it seems that managers at Sun (in particular) are now understanding the broader importance of metadata, and of how our use case fits within that context. We can all start to think about generic metadata-backed content fields, and generic metadata APIs, and powerful end-user solutions built around them; all standardized within ODF so that they can work across differerent applications.
I think this is a good sign for our bibliographic project, for OOo, and for ODF more broadly.
