The toolbar and templates
The ICE toolbar
The ICE toolbar has been developed as an OpenOffice.org extension and a Microsoft Word add-in. The purpose of the toolbar is to apply the ICE styles quicker and easier, this has been achieved by the creation of a toolbar that not only uses identical icons in OpenOffice.org and Word but also uses the same short cuts on all operating systems and word processors. The functionality of toolbar also includes some “smarts” to assist with the creation of more structurally correct content.
Download
The ICE toolbars are still being developed however, they are usable. Feel free to download and try them out, feedback is appreciated via the contact us page form or mailing list.
How the ICE toolbar works
The toolbar and templates work using ICE styles, a standard set of style names, the toolbar is designed to apply the styles setup in the template using a set of rules.
Figure 1: ICE toolbar and template integration
The Zotero template
A requirement of the ICE for Research and Scholarship project was to identify the potential to enhance bibliographic software to complement ICE. Zotero was identified as having potential and is also an open source application. The main requirements identified were to develop an OpenOffice.org extension and Word add-on that uses an inter-operable method of inserting citations and bibliographies.
“Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work — in the web browser itself.”
Source: http://www.zotero.org
The original Word template developed by Zotero has been re-worked by the ICE team so that it can be used in OpenOffice.org and Word using the same methods. Most of the work has been carried out by Ian Laurenson, who was hired as an external consultant on the ICE project.
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Download the Zotero template
The Zotero templates developed by the ICE project have now been integrated with the main release on the Zotero site (http://www.zotero.org).
You can download the Zotero templates from http://zotero.org/documentation/word_processor_integration