I'm not sure if a COinS with just author information, rather than a
citation to a particular bibliographic resource, is actually of use.
The OpenURL SAP profiles, which COinS works with, wasn't really designed
for that. I'd work up a clear use case before expending development
energy on it.
There might be a better microformat-ish way to embed author information
in a structured way in XML, perhaps RDFa (says he who knows almost
nothing about RDFa).
Jonathan
Karen Coyle wrote:
Thanks, Eric (and all!) - by non-book you mean other formats (films,
music, etc.?) OL doesn't have records for those (yet). There is an
author record, but I'm not sure how it might be used (it doesn't have
a link to LCNA). I supposed a COinS with the author name and dates
would be of some use... ? If anyone is interested, the list of
elements are at: http://openlibrary.org/type
Each "type" could have its own COinS if it makes sense.
kc
Eric Hellman wrote:
Not just the book pages, I might add! Wikipedia probably has the most
non-book COinS deployed; Worldcat is the premier site for book COinS.
A recent but impressive addition to the COinSiverse is
ResearchBlogging- see
http://ResearchBlogging.org
Eric
On 12/1/08 11:08 AM, "Karen Coyle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have a question to ask for the Open Library folks and I couldn't
quite
figure out where to ask it. This seems like a good place.
Would it be useful to embed COinS in the book pages of the Open
Library?
Does anyone think they might make use of them?
Thanks,
kc
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