On 3/24/06, Andy Mabbett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is "OpenURL COinS" <http://ocoins.info/> a microformat? How widely used > is it? are there any alternative/ competing formats?
It is not yet widely used. The most important example of COinS in the wild is OpenWorldCat, which is integrated with google, google scholar, and yahoo search: http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/000968.html http://www.oclc.org/worldcat/open/tryit/default.htm http://www.oclc.org/productworks/coins.htm The Structured Blogging plugins also publish COinS for books and journal articles: http://structuredblogging.org/ ...so anyone using those to write about books w/ISBNs and articles is publishing COinS. OpenURL itself is widely implemented in the STM (science, technical, medical) publishing community and in medium-to-large libraries. Brian's explanations of COinS not being a microformat is correct; the data inside the COinS is indeed hidden from the microformats.org perspective. In a way, though, the COinS convention is like a microformat for publishing an OpenURL, however opaque OpenURL might seem. Which, however unsatisfactory this explanation might be to participants of this list, is why we wrote it. A workable citation microformat easily serialized into / deserialized from OpenURLs would be much better. -- C. Hudley We Know The Truth, Inc. _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
