[Bug 121958] Replace the Bibliography Database by a dialog to manually input new sources and to fetch from online sources via identifiers for citations/bibliography/references

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Fri Feb 16 13:22:44 UTC 2024


https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=121958

V Stuart Foote <vsfoote at libreoffice.org> changed:

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--- Comment #14 from V Stuart Foote <vsfoote at libreoffice.org> ---
(In reply to Alex Thurgood from comment #13)
> 
> Out of interest, where is the data for the bibliography stored ? My
> understanding was that Textmaker used SQLite databases, e.g. for mailmerge,
> is this the same here with the Zotero binding ? If so, does the data get
> written to a sqlite db somewhere ?
> 
> Also, if the functionality requires built-in SQLite support, then, a whole
> new consideration needs to be given as to how one would get that working
> reliably in LO.

Zotero and its API uses an embedded SQLite instance to hold its data. That can
be fully local (in Zotero's user profile) or linked references or a mix of
both.

We'd have to link to that as a data source for Base/Bibliography or use the
Zotero API in a plug-in.

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