# OpenOffice Bib API

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**Category:** CSL Development\
**Created:** [September 23, 2006, 1:01am UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/openoffice-bib-api/226 "2006-09-23T01:01:12Z")\
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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:** [September 23, 2006, 1:01am UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/openoffice-bib-api/226/1 "2006-09-23T01:01:12Z")

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FYI, David Wilson put up a wiki page to come up with suggested  
enhancements to the OpenOffice bibliographic API.

\<[http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/](http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/)  
Bibliographic\_API\_Enhancements\>

I’m trying to find out about Microsoft’s new citation and  
bibliography API, but am not finding any details; just this:

[http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms406055.aspx](http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms406055.aspx)

… which says:

> New members in the Word 2007 object model, such as the Bibliography  
> object in both the Application object and the Document object,  
> allow you to work with bibliographies and citations programmatically.

Not much help though.

It seems to me off-hand, though, that the job of the citation API is  
to hand-off IDs to the citation processor and insert the proper  
formatted text that it returns. Likewise for the bibliographic API.

To quote Oliver Sprecht [1]:

> [22:38:50] You’re loading your data -  
> bibliographical data. We are loading the textual representation of  
> the fields and the bibliographic index.

In any case, we need to nail down this bit in a reasonable time. Feel  
free to contribute.

Bruce

[1] \<[http://bibliographic.openoffice.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentView](http://bibliographic.openoffice.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentView)?  
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