Bibliophile

The work you have done is very useful and helpful in preparing papers for
professional publication. This suggestion is based on my need and
experience with using AIGAION to its fullest extent.

I am doing Marketing, and every Journal has different citation rules. I
could chose to use something like Endnote, but have some strong Open Source
leanings. AIGAION has the framework to answer many of the issues.

I am a PHP developer and can customize the exporting formats currently
available. I just wanted to offer the idea of allowing for customizable
export options based on the individual user (with the ability to add,
create, edit, drop rules).

I realize there is schema for XML tagging. Is there documentation on these
schema.

The long term vision would be some sort of encoding parameters, so I could
do inline/reference list citations. I copied the MLA folder and was going
to start to create a new model (JM for Journal of Marketing).

So in my Word Document, inline I could have some text and then include a
reference code [code:199912078938749, code: 200701019379789] for one or
more bibtext id's ... then when I 'wizardize' the document, with a
specified info, it does a search and replace based on the necessary
formatting. I believe some formatting standards could be created, similar
to the PHP date() function.

e.g.,

aExport("apa");
aExport("chicago");

or

aExport("lname, year");

Some journal submissions are very picky about the reference list as well,
so there could be options to manually include bibliography items that
don't
appear in the body, or strict requirements to build the citations list
**ONLY** from the actual citations in the body.

AIGAION is a great framework for managing the storage and retrieval. It
would be wonderful if it seamlessly integrate to help in the writing
process.


So I create and write the master document in WORD, export as an RTF, run a
PHP script to do the appropriate formatting for inline, footnotes,
bibliography, get a new RTF back, import into WORD, and I have the same
paper reformatted for the given style.


Regards,


monte

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