April 23, 2004
Pretty pictures of workflows, mp3 vs academic pdf
I’m procrastinating from writing the CIP paper. The paper is on the differences between personal management of digital music and academic PDFs, and how we might learn from digital music management …
Nothing better than making diagrams to procrastinate and with OmniGraffle and the easy OS X PDF screen-shots it is just so much fun. Of course delving into the operating system to get icons is also fun.
Anyway, for your viewing please I give you my workflow diagrams … Firstly we have the reasonably functional MP3 process:
And now the pretty darn disfunctional academic pdf and citation management process. The white boxes are the missing components. Notice also that the PDFs never have metadata tags …
Of course this is the worst case one without a citation manager, like Bibdesk. Speaking of Bibdesk Mike merged Adam’s RTF preview code today so CVS has new goodies which we’ll roll out asap.
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