On Feb 10, 2006, at 7:25 PM, Michael McCracken wrote:
Hi, I just found the recent conversations about a citation
microformat, and saw that the discussion slowed down around the
same time someone asked about what problem we're solving. I'd like
to add my two cents:
I have a particular use case in mind: I would like to have my
publications list on my home page have enough detail to reconstruct
at least a BibTeX entry from it, and ideally something richer. I'd
also really like to be sure that there's an element that's a link
to a hard-copy of the referenced item for download, if available.
Given such a microformat, I'd add support to BibDesk to generate it
from BibTeX (and our upcoming database format), and support to add
items from a web page directly to a database in BibDesk. I would
also like to be able to subscribe to a page with data in this
format, so I'd know when new publications were added.
So, I'd like to hear opinions (since I'm new to the idea of
microformats) on how to support subscriptions with the citation
format, and whether or not it'd be best done by also using hAtom.
hAtom + a citation format would seem reasonable for this.
Alternatively, you could do something with XOXO and a citation
microformat.
I've been wanting to add this kind of support to BibDesk for years,
and the number of citation metadata formats has made it difficult
to decide on a good path to take.
Hopefully, with a microformat we can provide some common ground for
citation formats.
-ryan
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