Hi Ryan, On 12/20/05 12:56 PM, "Ryan Cannon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Greetings, > > I've actually been looking at this problem from another angle, and > considered submitting a microformat about it. What we're really > looking for is not solely citation data (such as ISBN), but > bibliographic information. Yes. > Perhaps a good method for starting is to > break down the relevant information from accepted academic > bibliography formats (MLA, APA, Chicago) and synthesize proper class > names based on that data. If there was wide interoperability of one particular academic bibliographic format, then yes, that basing a microformat on that one academic bibliographic format would be a reasonable route to take. (e.g. as we did with vCard for hCard). However, there are a plethora of citation formats, most of which could be criticized as being drastically overdesigned/overengineered for the 80/20 case of what people actually publish on the Web. So before jumping to format analysis, the first thing to do, per the microformats process: http://microformats.org/wiki/process ...is to research and document more real world *examples* of people posting actual citation *content* on the Web, visibly, intended for human consumption. http://microformats.org/wiki/cite-examples So far we have only two sets of examples listed, a few more would be good, along with the analysis of the implicit schemas illustrated by each content example. Once we have a good idea what the 80/20 is of actual citation related fields used in actual citation examples published on the web, then we can take a analyze existing formats (and please add to this page if you know of more): http://microformats.org/wiki/cite-formats ...to see how drastically we should subset them and brainstorm a straw microformat accordingly in the cite-brainstorming page: http://microformats.org/wiki/cite-brainstorming Thanks, Tantek _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
