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Bibliography formatting software: an evaluation template

by Francesco Dell'Orso

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Legend
  • Web resources
  • 1 Identity card
  • 2 Installation
  • 3 General
  • 4 Structure
  • 5 Input/Edit
  • 6 Import
  • 7 Search
  • 8 Thesaurus
  • 9 Output
  • 10 Formatting language
  • 11 Sort
  • 12 Export
  • 13 Manuscript formatting
  • 14 Term/Entry list
  • 15 Documentation


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    F. Dell'Orso, Bibliography Formatting Software: An Evaluation Template. 1999
    Last Update: December, 28, 1999

    8 Thesaurus
    Pr: no En: no
    RM: no Papyrus: yes : keywords System list
    8.1 Link types: BT/NT; NTG/BTG; RT; USE/UF; TT/NT;
    Pr: n.a.               En: n.a.
    RM: n.a. Papyrus: built-in types: sub/super- category; synonyms; antonyms; closely related; other can be created under user's control
    8.2 Links are automatically bidirectional
    Pr: n.a. En: n.a.
    RM: n.a. Papyrus: yes
    8.3 Links can be edited (i.e. change without detach entries)
    Pr: n.a. En: n.a.
    RM: n.a. Papyrus: no: have to be deleted and recreated
    8.4 Can create kw while making links
    Pr: n.a. En: n.a.
    RM: n.a. Papyrus: no, can only link existing entries
    8.5 Links are validated and controlled, e.g.:
    -- a Narrower Term (sub-) cannot also be Broader Term (super-) of its Broader Term
    -- a rejected term (Used for) cannot be used
    -- no term can refer to itself
    Pr: n.a. En: n.a.
    RM: n.a. Papyrus: no (except that no term can refer to itself)
    8.6 SN Scope notes
    Pr: n.a. En: n.a.
    RM: n.a. Papyrus: no
    8.7 Multilingual links codes
    Pr: n.a. En: n.a.
    RM: n.a. Papyrus: no
    8.8 Can import list of unlinked/linked entries
    Pr: n.a. En: n.a.
    RM: n.a. Papyrus: yes, only unlinked
    8.9 List is relationally linked to database records
    Pr: n.a. En: n.a.
    RM: n.a. Papyrus: yes
    8.10 List can be used from records during input
    Pr: n.a. En: n.a.
    RM: n.a. Papyrus: yes
    8.11 List can be used during search:
      1. browsing
      2. navigation
      3. direct search
      4. list itself can be searched
    Pr: n.a. En: n.a.
    RM: n.a. Papyrus: 1 2 3; search can take into account a) type of link (include exclude) b) depth of link: up- down- posting
    Pr: n.a. En: n.a.
    8.12 Output
    1. screen preview 2. printout
    Pr: n.a. En: n.a.
    RM: n.a. Papyrus: 1 (not the whole structured list but any entry in its whole arborescence); (2 print the mere list of entries without links)
    8.13 Output layout
      1. alphabetic with links and their codes
      2. systematic with alphabetically listed subentries
      3. permuted: KWIC, KWOC ...
      4. hierarchical (TT + alphabetic list; TT + hierarchical list; TT only)
    Pr: n.a. En: n.a.
    RM: n.a. Papyrus: 1 (only print preview: not the whole list, but complete tree of any term)
    8.14 Statistics
    Pr: n.a. En: n.a.
    RM: n.a. Papyrus: no
    8.15 Other, e.g.: provision for candidate descriptors, identifiers, polihierarchy ...
    Pr: n.a. En: n.a.
    RM: n.a. Papyrus: no (polihierarchy allowed as links are not controlled)


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