Ah, does mendeley use coins too?
Are you saying Mendeley recognizes UnAPI too? Or that Mendeley
recognizes COinS embedded in page, but not UnAPI?
Interesting.
It's too bad that COinS does not validate under HTML5. I wish we could
get mendeley, zotero, et al, to agree on some newer simple format. I've
tried to reach out to various of them before with suggestions and offers
to help them, with no takers.
On 11/20/2012 5:35 PM, David Lawrence wrote:
For what it is worth, I can offer an approximate measure of the utility of
COinS. After my online database had UnAPI metadata available for quite a
while, I began receiving lots of requests for COinS from people who use
Mendeley. Normally, I receive lots of complaints, requests and suggestions.
I have received quite a few thank-you messages since adding COinS. I agree
with the COinS negatives mentioned before.
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Center for Injury Prevention Policy and Practice
San Diego State University, School of Public Health
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On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Jonathan Rochkind <rochk...@jhu.edu> wrote:
It _IS_ an old unused metadata format that should be replaced by something
else (among other reasons because it's actually illegal in HTML5), but I'm
not sure there is a "something else" with the right balance of flexibility,
simplicity, and actual adoption by consuming software.
But COinS didn't have a whole lot of adoption by consuming software
either. Can you say what you think the COinS you've been adding are useful
for, what they are getting used for? And what sorts of 'citations' youw ere
adding them for? For my own curiosity, and because it might help answer if
there's another solution that would still meet those needs.
But if you want to keep using COinS -- creating a COinS generator like
OCLC's no longer existing one is a pretty easy thing to do, perhaps some
code4libber reading this will be persuaded to find the time to create one
for you and others. If you have a server that could host it, you could
offer that. :)
On 11/20/2012 4:47 PM, Bigwood, David wrote:
I've used the COinS Generator at OCLC for years. Now it is gone. Any
suggestions on how I can get an occasional COinS for use in our
bibliography? Do any of the citation managers generate COinS?
Or is this just an old unused metadata format that should be replaced by
something else?
Thanks,
Dave Bigwood
dbigw...@hou.usra.edu
Lunar and Planetary Institute
