OpenOffice Bibliographic Project

The bibliographic project will design and build an easy to use and comprehensive bibliographic facility within OpenOffice. It will be easy to use for the casual user, but will meet all the requirements of the professional and academic writer. The new bibliographic facility will utilise the latest open standards and will make the fullest use of emerging XML, XSLT, RDF and SRU/W technology.

http://bibliographic.openoffice.org/

I think this might be a promising central point for collaboration in the area of bibliographic integration with software.  Since you need the citation information in your document composition environment, why not just build bibliographic capabilities right in?

UPDATE

Bruce D'Arcus of the Geography Department of Miami University is the co-project leader. He has a blog.

A couple interesting postings from his blog:

• December 17, 2005  Citation Metadata Workflow
• January 28, 2006  A Model for Citation Metadata

His blog leads me to discover there is a HubMed Blog - Hublog, with a posting from December 17, 2005 Academic Metadata Workflow.

ENDUPDATE

via JISC Middleware for Distributed Cognition

Comments

[Solveig Haugland]

Great connection, I think, or at least a lot of potential, between libraries and that OpenOffice.org bibliographic project. Might be a nice "wag the dog" approach to introducing people to general OpenOffice.org use.