Re: author tag of RIS-dataset

Quoting Stefan Schlee <stefan_schlee <at> yahoo.com>:

> If I am correctly interpreting you email you seem to be somewhat  
> dissatisfied with RIS as the foundation/starting point of the data  
> model of refDB.  Are you planning to change the data model on which  
> refDB is based in the future?
>

Well, the rbib article is sort of a blueprint of a future data model.  
The thing is, while it would serve most needs in medicine and in life  
sciences, it is likely still not sufficient for the humanities. They'd  
like to have a more flexible approach to bibliographic data. Traces of  
this discussion can be found on the web. However, as I currently lack  
the time to do a complete rewrite of the data storage, I'm not  
pressing a decision here.

> Besides that, your blog-entries and my test driving of refDB have  
> stirred a lot of questions, remarks, objections, feature requests  
> etc..  But before I can discuss these topics in a productive way I  
> have to base my arguments on more research into refDB and its  
> documentation.  So I would like to postpone the discussion until  
> soon.  Is this kind of discussion better shifted to the devel list?
>

Feel free to use the devel list to discuss the implementation in a  
more technical sense (data storage, client-server protocol, data  
formats and so on). I reckon that feature requests and such are better  
served by the user list.

regards,
Markus

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