[Papyrus-L] Papyrus: Windows a plea from the heart

[Bicknell, David]

Hello to all you thinking bibliographers

To add my support and some suggestions for the updating of Papyrus:

We selected Papyrus because it is clearly the most rigorous program around
in the way it handles the fields on information, and can also (with some
twitching and scrabbling) handle imports and exports from such a range of
other sources.

However, we are now being pressured by those that demand a certain look and
feel, and also expect a certain ease of use. There are some wonderful
programs out there that give the expected usefulness. For instance, look at
the way Maximizer (a contacts manager amongst other things) integrates with
the word processor and has very flexible database design.

Is their some way of getting a user group to help fund the development? As I
have said to Dave before, we would be prepared to put some funding into
development, because we want to use Papyrus as a distribution mechanism for
selected reference databases, and we also want to use this to prepare
interactive web pages. Perhaps we can get the development by forming a
consortium of users/developers, and have a dispersed group of programmers
talking to each other to get the product that users want.

Regards
Dave B
David Bicknell
Senior Development Officer
Farm Forestry and Revegetation Project
Manager, Salinity Networks and Communication of Information Project
Agriculture Western Australia
10 Doney Street
Narrogin WA 6312
P 08 9881 0222; F 08 9881 1950; Mobile 0417 900 284


> ----------
> From: 	Lori McNiven[SMTP:LMcNiven at exchange.hsc.mb.ca]
> Reply To: 	papyrus-l at rsd.com
> Sent: 	Tuesday, 6 March 2001 2:02 AM
> To: 	papyrus-l at rsd.com
> Subject: 	RE: [Papyrus-L] Papyrus: Windows a plea from the heart
> 
> Hi there, 
> 
> I also would like to agree with all of the recent messages concerning a
> Windows version of Papyrus. I have been using this program for several
> years
> now and also have well over 10,000 references in my database. The hospital
> I
> work for is trying to switch me over to Endnote, but I am fighting this
> for
> as long as possible. An incredible number of hours have been spent setting
> up this database to work exactly as I want and I have been using it with
> Windows (first Windows 98 and now Windows 2000) for some time now and have
> not noticed any problems. 
> 
> I believe in the old adage "if it ain't broke....don't fix it!!". I do
> think
> that a Windows version of Papyrus might "unruffle some feathers", so would
> be extremely grateful to hear that one might be possible sometime soon!!
> 
> Lori McNiven
> Research Assistant
> Health Sciences Centre
> Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Brett Davis [SMTP:Brett.Davis at bigpond.com]
> > Sent:	Monday, March 05, 2001 7:03 AM
> > To:	papyrus-l at rsd.com
> > Subject:	Re: [Papyrus-L] Papyrus: Windows a plea from the heart
> > 
> > I concur with Hugh Gunz on this. Furthermore, I'd hate to see my
> reference
> > base of 10000+ references slowly become inaccessible and incompatible
> with
> > evolving Windows systems - too much time and effort has gone into
> > establishing and maintaining it.
> > 
> > Brett
> > 
> > Dr Brett Davis
> > PO Box 265,  Kalgoorlie Business Centre,
> > Western Australia, Australia, 6433.
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Hugh Gunz" <hugh.gunz at utoronto.ca>
> > To: <papyrus-l at rsd.com>
> > Sent: Monday, 5 March 2001 8:07
> > Subject: Re: [Papyrus-L] Papyrus: Windows a plea from the heart
> > 
> > 
> > > I quite agree with both postings. I would really hate to see Papyrus
> > > becoming the WordPerfect of the bibliographic world. I have the
> greatest
> > > sympathy for Dave and the struggle he faces to keep all user groups
> > happy,
> > > but it's proving virtually impossible these days to convince any
> > colleague
> > > or doctoral student that it's worth learning a DOS-based program. Some
> > kind
> > > of realistic forecast for the date of arrival of the Windows version
> > would
> > > help a very great deal.
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > > Hugh Gunz
> > >
> > > Hugh P Gunz
> > > Professor of Organizational Behaviour
> > > Joseph L Rotman School of Management
> > > 105 St George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3E6
> > > Phone: 416-978-1988
> > > Fax:   905-569-4302
> > > E-mail: hugh.gunz at utoronto.ca
> > >
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