Here you can find our video about the revised version of our plugin.
We do note that we could not use our original storyboard because we did not have a scanner availlable.
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intro: We now describe a revised version of our paper plugin for microsoft word. We will illustrate how we add a reference and share the paper with a team.
1: When we start writing a paper the first things we see are the added tab and the extra window, we will need these later. But first we will add some text to our paper.
2: After writing a bit of text we now notice in the extra window that we can expand the author menu.
3: If we click this we will see a list of authors. Next to them are information buttons. We will click one of them to get more information about the authors.
4: Now we see a list of papers written by the author. We will add a reference to it by dragging it on our own paper.
5: The reference has been added. The paper will appear under the recent papers.
6: We look at them and we see that the only paper we consulted was paper 1. We can read it if we want but this is currently of no concern to us. With the reference and some text added we can now take a break. While we do that, others can view the paper. We will now illustrate how this happens. First we click on 'team' to open the teamview.
7: We see 4 teams here. We share the paper by dragging the current paper to the 2 wanted teams.
8: Now we would like to publish our papers so only our teams will be able to see it. To do so we will first have to edit the status of our paper. We click on the button 'status' and we select 'in progress'.
9: We are now ready to publish our paper to our teams. We click 'publish' and we see that we can choose our folder to save the paper. We can also edit the 'abstract' part that shows as a comment with the paper. Now the program has detected the part good so we will not edit it.
10: We are now ready with sharing our paper. Other authors can now edit the paper while using the word functionality to keep track of changes.
11: Later we will see in our library how many edits happened to wich papers.
We will add the storyboard image soon.
edit: Here is the storyboard. I hope it's a bit clear with these images:
28 februari 2010 om 03:25:00 PST
First of all the video is really clear.
Is there a main reason why you designed a MS Word plugin and not for use with LaTeX, what I think is the main platform for writing papers?
When to users edit a paper are the users warned when editting concurrently?
28 februari 2010 om 11:54:00 PST
Again, I feel that the video is rather more focused on the tool and functionality than on the end user scenario...
In any case, I think that it would be better to focus on less and not also do the group management besides the reference management.
But, then again, there are quite a few bibliogrtaphy plug-ins for MS-Word. In fact, Word has its own! I'd suggest to try and make the added value clearer or to try and design something radically different...
1 maart 2010 om 02:03:00 PST
Nice idea but I have the same question as Ditso 'why is it designed for MSword and not for LaTeX?'
I also wonder if you can easily add references to papers that you found by yourself and are not suggested by the plugin?
1 maart 2010 om 13:43:00 PST
This would be a nice PLUGIN. Great works guys !
8 maart 2010 om 01:51:00 PST
I think this is one of the more original ideas. It is clearly different from all the others. I also think it is ok to focus on Microsoft Word right now. Adding support for other applications could be added in the future.
8 maart 2010 om 12:27:00 PST
I like it. It seems a simple and convenient tool to use. Even when not writing an actual paper, it could be convenient to be able to quickly add some references to a document.
However, I also think it would be nice if the concept could be expanded to LaTeX, as I think most papers are written in this language.
16 maart 2010 om 13:06:00 PDT
I think this is a useful idea and it could be useful even outside the scope of papers. Sharing documents is somthing I miss in the current MS Office suite.