# GUI MODS mockup

**URL:** <https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/gui-mods-mockup/111>\
**Category:** CSL Development\
**Created:** [October 18, 2005, 5:36pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/gui-mods-mockup/111 "2005-10-18T17:36:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Johan\_Kool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/43a26b/32.png) [@Johan\_Kool](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/Johan_Kool)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2005, 5:36pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/gui-mods-mockup/111/1 "2005-10-18T17:36:25Z")

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Interesting slides Bruce! Looks good! And going by the blog aggregator you  
seem to have made an impression at that conference!

I’ve been thinking some more on how I’d like my citation manager to look  
like. The last version I made was way to complicated indeed. What I have now  
is much simpler, although it is perhaps in some ways still to simple, but I  
have a feeling this is the right way to go.

[http://sheba.geo.vu.nl/~jkool/filearea/GUI%20MODS%20mockup.png](http://sheba.geo.vu.nl/~jkool/filearea/GUI%20MODS%20mockup.png)

Working on that, I wondered if there is an abstract field in MODS or RDF.  
And a project field? Local PDF (or PS or whichever document) field?

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**Author:** ![Bruce\_D\_Arcus1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Bruce\_D\_Arcus1](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/Bruce_D_Arcus1)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2005, 3:05am UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/gui-mods-mockup/111/2 "2005-10-19T03:05:37Z")

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> Interesting slides Bruce! Looks good! And going by the blog aggregator you  
> seem to have made an impression at that conference!

Yes. I probably annoyed at least some of them with my comments on  
library standards though. I mentioned your reaction to the demo  
schema, and how you’d thought it was much more clear than MODS.

Still, I got a lot of positive response to what I was talking about.

> I’ve been thinking some more on how I’d like my citation manager to look  
> like. The last version I made was way to complicated indeed. What I have now  
> is much simpler, although it is perhaps in some ways still to simple, but I  
> have a feeling this is the right way to go.
> 
> [http://sheba.geo.vu.nl/~jkool/filearea/GUI%20MODS%20mockup.png](http://sheba.geo.vu.nl/~jkool/filearea/GUI%20MODS%20mockup.png)
> 
> Working on that, I wondered if there is an abstract field in MODS or RDF.

Yes.

> And a project field? Local PDF (or PS or whichever document) field?

No to the first in MODS. In RDF you can add anything you want, which  
is one of its benefits. I wonder if you could use DOAP for this?

Local files?

OK, Matthias and I had gone over this in MODS. There is a location  
element, but it’s not really clear how to use in this case. He was  
using it for this, and I for public files.

In my RDF schema, you’d do something like:

Bruce

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**Author:** ![Bruce\_D\_Arcus1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Bruce\_D\_Arcus1](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/Bruce_D_Arcus1)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2005, 3:07am UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/gui-mods-mockup/111/3 "2005-10-19T03:07:41Z")

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Oh, I forgot to add:

Try title and abbreviated title, rather than title/subtitle. It’s  
easier to do in a GUI, also easier to process otherwise. Also, on  
names:

1. wouldn’t those be auto-completable?

2. how would you parse them if in that form?

Bruce