© F. Dell'Orso, Bibliography Formatting Software: An Evaluation Template
Last update: May, 6, 2004


 4.3. General

The overstriked grid's items have not been taken into account for the purposes of this shorter evaluation: it does not imply at all that the package cannot perform the relevant function.
The numbering and the content are the same as the full version of the evaluation grid.


General

1 Available Functions: summary
   1. Search
   2. Remote search (Z39.50)
   3. Print
   4. Export
   5. Sort
   6. Input/Cataloguing
   7. Global corrections
   8. Import
   9. Reformatting during import
   10. Input via catching www pages
   11. Manuscript formatting (also from within the wp)
   12. Managing term lists
   13. Thesaurus
   14. Duplicates detection
   15. Circulation (Loans)
   16. Can activate external files and applications (OLE or OS'  Shell)
   17. Compute
   18. Graphic files management
   19. Other

Biblioscape: 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 (also directly from the web, called 'Internet' function using its own browser) 9 10 (Internet Module as a note or reference; with MS-IE also related graphics are saved) 11 12 14 (15 only in the Library edition: not reviewed here) 16 18 (+ specific Charts module to create, modify link charts)
19: Charts, Notes, Tasks are distinct modules; BiblioWord is: its own word processor; Web Publishing: read and write, see Other features.
It works with different scripts like Hebrew, Cyrillic, Arabic, JKC: you set your machine to "International settings: " e.g. Korean, and can enter Korean  characters, display them and use them within queries to retrieve records: not tested
Bookends: 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 (see 19) 9 11 12 14 16 [18 see below 3.8]
19 Can work with companion software Reference Miner. The latter searches Amazon (DE, US, UK) or PubMed, Library of Congress: drag and drop retrieved records into Bookends without need to convert

2 Internal database management
   1. Create
   2. Rename
   3. Copy
   4. Delete
   5. Undelete

   6. Rebuild
   7. Save
   8. Compress (release space)
   9. Record undelete
   10. Revert global corrections
   11. Statistics

Biblioscape: 6 and update index Bookends: 6 8 and reindex

3 Functions across different databases
   1. search
   2. print
   3. global corrections
   4. duplicate detection
   5. manuscript formatting

Biblioscape: none Bookends: none

4 Database subsets
    1. retrieved records
    2. highlighted records
    3. marked records
    4. virtual sets
    5. imported set
    6. duplicate set

Biblioscape: 3, 4 (three types of "Folders": for records, for Notecards records -different from notes field- and for dynamic searches directly pointing to records), Bookends: 3 hit/marked list 4 groups

5 Other library functions
   (e.g. acquisitions, periodicals control, circulation, statistics)
    1. built-in
   2. can integrate

Biblioscapeonly in the Library edition: not reviewed here, which includes Catalog, Serials,Circulation, Interlibrary Loan, Borrowers, Lenders, and Suppliers Bookends: no

6 Data type
   1. textual (also ANSI table chars 128-255)
   2. numeric
   3. graphic
   4. sound

1 (2: fields can be numeric, but not directly used to compute) 3 in the Charts module 4 as OLE objects, attachment Bookends: 1 (1, 2, 3, 4 any document type as attachment)

you can view any QuickTime compatible graphic without leaving Bookends and switching to the relevant application; this includes all popular graphic formats, pdf preview --in OS X--, and QT movies

7 Command macros

Biblioscape: no Bookends: no

H) Mouse
    1. right click
    2. drag-and-drop



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