The seemingly ubiquitous Bruce D'Arcus joined Ed, Ross, and me to discuss his many efforts to improve bibliographic management for scholars. Bruce is involved in and tracks so many different initiatives, it's hard to believe this isn't actually his day job. We were particularly happy that Bruce could share some of his time with us during the busy school semester.

Find the file in the Podcast feeds at left.

My apologies to Bruce and all listeners for the little clicks and pops that sometimes chop up Bruce when he's talking. We're still fidgeting with equipment and software every time we do this, trying to find the best combination, and this time I did something wrong. Rather than try to redo the whole thing, though, which would be hard to schedule, we think it's still good enough to capture pretty much the whole discussion. Still, I'm sorry about the glitches, and we'll avoid that in the future.

Among the projects noted during discussion:

• Bruce's Citation Style Language, now used in Zotero
• The OpenOffice Bibliographic project which Bruce co-chairs
• Wikipedia on the OpenDocument Format
• "OpenOffice, OpenDocument, and Metadata", his talk from Access 2005
• The hCite microformat
• The Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS)
• Boundaries of dissent : protest and state power in the media age, Bruce's recent book