[Bibdesk-rfes] [ bibdesk-Feature Requests-1952729 ] Controlled Vocabulary

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Feature Requests item #1952729, was opened at 2008-04-27 07:01
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Category: Interface Improvements
Group: None
Status: Open
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Assigned to: Michael McCracken (mmcc)
Summary: Controlled Vocabulary

Initial Comment:
I sent this in an email, but not sure it got through...
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First, thanks for a wonderful program.

I did a hour long presentation in my graduate course this past week demonstrating my use of BibDesk, Skim, LaTeX, VoodooPad and TextMate ($80 total). The people (5-10 doctoral students and two professors) were blown away by the quality and power, especially the integration of BibDesk and Skim.

I have a suggestion, for what it's worth. I am frustrated by the quality and consistency of the keywords, admittedly author supplied, that are included with the download of reference information from online databases. Certainly, it is possible to delete these and supply my own. What I would find more useful would be the ability to tag files using a controlled vocabulary. That it, a user created, hierarchical list (including synonyms) of keywords.

I use the same sort of thing to tag photos. For examples, see http://www.controlledvocabulary.com/.

Wouldn't this be a more powerful way applying keywords?

-- 
andrew
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