Welcome Michael!
On 2/10/06 7:25 PM, "Michael McCracken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. The conversation is still going strong, but has moved for the most part to organized deliberate work on the citation related wiki pages, please have a thorough read - there's a lot there: http://microformats.org/wiki/citation > 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. Both of those are good outline problem statements, I recommend you contribute them to the citation-brainstorming page. http://microformats.org/wiki/citation-brainstorming > 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. That makes *a lot* of sense. Thanks for being here Michael. > 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. Precisely. citation syndication. Add this to the citation-brainstorming page as well. > 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. Note that hCard is sufficient for syndicating contact information, and hCalendar is sufficient for syndicating calendar/event information. You can always wrap anything in hAtom as an additional syndication envelope as another alternative. > 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. That's an excellent observation. Our hope is that by basing a citation microformat on what people *actually* publish on the *Web*, we can use that as a filter against the conceptual citation metadata format wars. Looking forward to your contributions on the wiki. Thanks, Tantek _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
